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Rotational Coronary Atherectomy (RCA)

A thin, flexible tube (catheter) is inserted into an artery through a small incision in the groin. A rotating edge at the end of the catheter is used to remove small particles from a narrowed artery. We were the first hospital in the region to perform this procedure.

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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