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Angioplasty
18 New Jersey hospitals seek permission for new heart service
January 25th, 2005
Nearly one in four New Jersey hospitals wants to add a program to perform nonemergency angioplasty, the clearing out of clogged heart arteries with a balloon-tipped catheter, without being required to have backup heart surgeons on site in case of complications. From Bayonne Hospital to Virtua-West Jersey in Marlton, 18 acute care hospitals across the state submitted applications for such a program by January 3, 2005,'s deadline, according to the state Department of Health and Senior Services. The applications are somewhat controversial because major teaching and research hospitals that offer open heart and other cardiac surgery have long opposed...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2005-01-25)
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