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Treatment Choices for Angina (Chest Pain)

para>How medicines prevent or treat angina

Some angina medicines work by expanding the walls of the coronary arteries, so that more blood can get through. Other angina medicines work by reducing the amount of work the heart has to do. That way the heart muscle needs less blood.

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How medicines prevent or treat angina

Some angina medicines work by expanding the walls of the coronary arteries, so that more blood can get through. Other angina medicines work by reducing the amount of work the heart has to do. That way the heart muscle needs less blood.

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Heart stent

A heart stent is a tiny metal tube that helps prop open an artery in the heart. It is placed inside an artery during an angioplasty. Most stents are coated with a medicine that helps keep the artery from getting narrow or blocked again.

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Heart stent

A heart stent is a tiny metal tube that helps prop open an artery in the heart. It is placed inside an artery during an angioplasty. Most stents are coated with a medicine that helps keep the artery from getting narrow or blocked again.

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Coronary artery bypass graft surgery

During coronary artery bypass surgery, the surgeon removes a piece of blood vessel from the leg, chest, arm, or belly. Then the surgeon uses that piece of blood vessel (called a "graft") to reroute blood around the blocked artery. The surgery is called "bypass surgery" because it bypasses the blockage. Some people have more than one blocked artery bypassed. In this picture, the graft came from a vein in the leg called the "saphenous vein. " � But grafts can come from other places, too.

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Coronary artery bypass graft surgery

During coronary artery bypass surgery, the surgeon removes a piece of blood vessel from the leg, chest, arm, or belly. Then the surgeon uses that piece of blood vessel (called a "graft") to reroute blood around the blocked artery. The surgery is called "bypass surgery" because it bypasses the blockage. Some people have more than one blocked artery bypassed. In this picture, the graft came from a vein in the leg called the "saphenous vein. " � But grafts can come from other places, too.

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