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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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Dr. Yun Tran answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Yes: symptomatic, and your cardiologist recommends angioplasty, I say go for it

Answered 3/2/2016

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