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• Abdominal aortic aneurysm [r]: Aneurysm that involves the descending aorta from the diaphragm to the split at the iliac arteries. ^[e]
• Aspirin [r]: Common analgesic used for treating mild to moderate pain; protective against blood clots and heart disease when administered indefinitely in low doses ^[e]
• Atherosclerosis [r]: Thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of medium and large muscular arteries with lesions in the innermost layer. ^[e]
• Cholangiocarcinoma [r]: A relatively rare cancer of the bile ducts. ^[e]
• DES (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. ^[e]
• Drug-eluting stent [r]: A type of intravascular stent that is impregnated with a drug, such as paclitaxel, that may lower the chance of restenosis, although possibly increase the risk of thrombosis ^[e]
• Food and Drug Administration [r]: The agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. ^[e]
• Gangrene [r]: Destruction of biological tissue, primarily from a compromised blood supply, but also from destructive microorganisms or their exotoxins ^[e]
• Graduate medical education [r]: A medical degree, most often a bachelor's degree, from a school or college of medicine, usually combined with practical clinical experience. ^[e]
• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty [r]: Surgical dilatation of an occluded coronary artery by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply. ^[e]
• Preoperative care [r]: Preparation and management of a patient prior to surgery. ^[e]
• Stroke [r]: A sudden loss of brain function due to interrupted blood supply. ^[e]

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• Coronary heart disease [r]: Disease of the heart that involves narrowing of the coronary arteries. ^[e]
• Percutaneous coronary intervention [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pci [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Drug treatments for obesity [r]: Treatments of obesity that are based on drugs. ^[e]
• Hemoglobin [r]: Iron-containing allosteric protein in erythrocytes of vertebrates, consisting of about 6 percent heme and 94 percent globin; also the clinical measurement of hemoglobin per volume of whole blood, varying with age and sex ^[e]
• Heart [r]: A chambered muscular organ in organisms that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system. ^[e]