percutaneous coronary intervention

intervention /in·ter·ven·tion/ (-ven´shun)

1. the act or fact of interfering so as to modify.

2. any measure whose purpose is to improve health or alter the course of disease.

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crisis intervention 

1. an immediate, short-term, psychotherapeutic approach, the goal of which is to help resolve a personal crisis within the individual's immediate environment.

2. the procedures involved in responding to an emergency.

percutaneous coronary intervention  (PCI) the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, excimer laser angioplasty, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices.

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percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI),

the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, angioplasty using the excimer laser, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices.