Mechanical interventions like angioplasty may negatively impact smaller blood vessels or muscle areas. — Whalespan
Mechanical interventions like angioplasty may negatively impact smaller blood vessels or muscle areas.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
✕NOTSUPPORTED
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“And so, you know, one of the questions I've always asked is, well, why is this therapy not more effective? And we'll get into where it's effective and not effective, but is there potentially a downside to elaborating all that crap downstream? And does that have an effect on smaller blood vessels or smaller areas of muscle that end up getting occluded by all this stuff that you elaborate downstream when you're blowing open this artery?”
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