ablation
Example Sentences
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Cuculich thought it would work by simply copying catheter ablation’s scarring but was stunned when scans showed “we weren’t actually causing a new scar - and that’s a big deal.”
From Washington Times
Some patients are too sick for this “catheter ablation” and for others, like Backus, the problem eventually returns.
From Seattle Times
Since then he’s been kept alive by internal devices, stents, angioplasty surgery, a sextuple bypass surgery and multiple ablation procedures.
From Seattle Times
She says she hopes to launch another study that examines medication coupled with ablation, a procedure that uses heat to shrink fibroids one at a time.
From Washington Post
I needed a last-ditch ablation, and if it didn't hold, my cardiologist mumbled the word transplant.
From Salon
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