Why can’t we just bore/remove the clogging material in arteries than just putting in a stent in Angioplasty?
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We do. There’s a surgery called [endarterectomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarterectomy) where you open an artery and remove the plaques. You must also remove the entire adjacent endothelium. It’s usually performed on the carotid artery. It may or may not lead to more complications than stenting. From Wikipedia:
>One trial found that stents and endarterectomy were comparable while another found that stents had almost double the rate of complications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_endarterectomy
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