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Please your opinions regarding symptomatic diagonal branch artery stenosis when it is a small calibre vessel, go with angioplasty or not? thank you.
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Yes: symptomatic, and your cardiologist recommends angioplasty, I say go for it
Answered 3/2/2016
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