Angioplasty can improve symptoms of blocked arteries, such as chest pain and shortness of breath. Angioplasty is also often used during a heart attack to quickly open a blocked artery and reduce the amount of damage to your heart. Coronary angioplasty is a procedure used to open clogged heart arteries. Angioplasty uses a tiny balloon catheter that is inserted in a blocked blood vessel to help widen it and improve blood flow to your heart. Angioplasty is a surgery to open narrowed blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. These blood vessels are called the coronary arteries.Reasons for Angioplasty

LBBB and heart failure are a common combination. When LBBB co-exists with HF, it makes the weak heart beat in an asynchronous fashion thus making it even more in-efficient. By reversing the electrical phenomenon of LBBB by means of implanting a special pacemaker device with 3 wires (A Bi-Ventricular Pacemaker) the electrical activation of the heart can be made more synchronous (re-synchronization) which then will make the mechanical function of the heart improve over a period of time.

Each day, the average human heart beats about 100,000 times, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through the body.

That’s a lot of work for an organ no bigger than a large fist and weighing 8 to 12 ounces.

In fact, the heart does more physical work than any other muscle over a lifetime.

Located between the lungs in the middle of the chest, the heart pumps blood through the network of arteries and veins known as the cardiovascular system. It pushes blood to the body’s organs, tissues and cells.