Primary Angioplasty
Crozer-Keystone surgeons perform emergency and scheduled repairs of life-threatening conditions of the aorta. These dangerous conditions include an area of the aorta that has stretched and weakened (aneurysm) or torn.
Primary angioplasty is an emergency procedure to open blocked arteries in a heart attack patient. Crozer-Keystone offers clot-busting (thrombolytic) drugs to patients, when appropriate, but many heart specialists prefer primary angioplasty for most heart attack patients because recent studies have shown greater success.
More than 1,000 Crozer-Keystone patients have been treated with primary angioplasty within the first few hours of a life-threatening heart attack.