Cost of Angioplasty Peripheral in India

Angioplasty Peripheral is a procedure to treat a common blood circulation issues in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs in the body.

Symptoms may include:

• Slow hair growth or hair loss on legs
• Cramping in hips, calf muscles and thighs
• Skinny legs 
• Sores on your toes, feet or legs with no cure
• Color change of legs
• Erectile dysfunction in men

Causes may include:

• Atherosclerosis. In this fatty deposits (plaques) build up on your artery walls and reduce blood flow.
• Blood vessel inflammation.
• Injury to your limbs.
• Radiation exposure.

May include:

• Physical exam
• Ankle-brachial index
• Doppler ultrasound
• Angiography
• Blood tests

• In some cases medication is enough if it has not progressed much but if It has advanced then it requires a surgery such as:
• Angioplasty: In this procedure, a small empty tube (catheter) is threaded through a blood vessel to the affected artery with a small balloon on the tip of the tube is inflated to open the artery again and flatten the blockage into the artery wall, while at the same time stretching the artery open to increase blood flow.
• Bypass surgery: In this a graft bypass can be created using a vessel from another part of your body or a blood vessel made of synthetic fabric. This lets blood easily flow.
• Thrombolytic therapy: In this a clot-dissolving drug can be injected into your artery at the point of the clot to break it up.

• High blood pressure.
• High cholesterol.
• Smoking.
• Obesity.
• Diabetes.
• Stroke and heart attack.