While angioplasty has proved a successful life-saving treatment, David Smyth suggests it is not devoid of its own particular problems
The process of healing after tissue damage is essential for a living organism to survive, and higher organisms have developed a complex and sophisticated method of tissue regeneration after injury. In arterial injury, platelets have a pivotal role in both stemming the flow of blood from the damaged vessel and effecting permanent repairs at a later date.
Nursing Standard. 5, 42, 53-54. doi: 10.7748/ns.5.42.53.s54
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