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CryoPlasty Therapy
 A New Approach to Treating Peripheral Arterial Disease
CryoPlasty is a special type of angioplasty.
CryoPlasty Therapy requires only a small opening in the skin and is
performed while the patient is conscious, but drowsy and usually feeling no
pain.
Step1:
In CryoPlasty Therapy, the physician delivers a very small balloon
through a thin tube (catheter) into the blood vessel to the site of the
blockage.
Step3:
Once the blood vessel is opened the ballloon is deflated and
removed.
Step2:
The PolarCath Balloon Catheter is filled with nitrous oxide gas (rather
than saline solution as in traditional angioplasty), which cools and
turns into a gas, expanding the balloon. The gas gently cools the
inside of the blood vessel, which weakens the plaque as it opens up the
blockage
What is CryoPlasty
Therapy?
Call to make an appointment with one
of our Cardiologists here at Northwest Heart Center. Phone:
281-351-6250.
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