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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
A procedure to open an occluded coronary artery, performed by percutaneous introduction of a catheter into a peripheral (usually femoral) artery which is directed in a retrograde fashion to reach the diseased coronary artery. (NCI Thesaurus)
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