Glossary

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  • Angiorrhexis

    Rupture of a vessel, especially a blood vessel.  

  • Angiorrhaphy

    Suture of a vessel, especially a blood vessel.  

  • Angiopressure

    Pressure applied to a blood vessel to arrest hemorrhage.  

  • Angiopoietin

    One of several genes (or the proteins they encode) that stimulate new blood vessel formation. The proteins encoded by angiopoietin are found in healthy cardiac endothelium and in diseased tissues such as arthritic joints and malignant tumors.  

  • Rescue angioplasty

    The use of angioplasty to open coronary arteries that remain occluded after intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.  

  • Laser assisted angioplasty

    The use of laser energy to vaporize an atherosclerotic plaque in a diseased coronary or peripheral blood vessel.  

  • Facilitated angioplasty

    The treatment of acute myocardial infarction with small doses of clot-busting and antiplatelet drugs, followed immediately (within 1 hr) by balloon angioplasty.  

  • Amyloid angiopathy

    An abnormality of cerebral blood vessels in which amyloid is deposited in the walls of small arteries and arterioles. It may occur in persons with chronic infectious and inflammatory disorders or B-cell lymphoma, and is a common contributor to intracerebral hemorrhage or Alzheimer’s disease in older persons.  

  • Angiopathology

    Morbid changes in diseases of the blood vessels.  

  • Angioparalysis

    Vasomotor relaxation of blood vessel tone.