Medications -Medication can help reduce symptoms of angina either by improving the supply of oxygen to the heart muscle and/or by reducing the heart's need for oxygen.  Medications do not eliminate existing coronary blockages.

Angioplasty  - Commonly referred to as the balloon procedure.  A catheter with a deflated balloon on the tip is inserted into the narrowed part of the artery. Then the balloon is inflated, compressing the plaque and enlarging the blood vessel so blood can flow more easily.

Stent  -This procedure uses a wire mesh tube (a stent) to prop open an artery that's recently been widened using Angioplasty. The stent is collapsed, placed over the balloon catheter and moved into the area of the blockage. When the balloon is inflated, the stent expands, locks in place and forms a scaffold to hold the artery open.

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING -
(open heart surgery)
During bypass surgery, surgeons take a blood vessel from another part of the body and construct a detour around the blocked part of the coronary artery.  Blood can then use this new path to once again flow freely to the heart muscle.