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Uncommon card · History
Angioplasty, an Uncommon card
Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 92,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Angioplasty quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Angioplasty card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The balloon forces expansion of the blood vessel and the ______ muscular wall, allowing an improved blood flow.
Answer
surrounding. The balloon forces expansion of the blood vessel and the surrounding muscular wall, allowing an improved blood flow. From the Angioplasty article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Knapsack problem. Knapsack problem 76 · Angioplasty 73 · Ink 69 · Hottest chili pepper 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A deflated balloon attached to a catheter is passed over a guide-wire into the narrowed vessel and then inflated to a fixed size.
- The balloon forces expansion of the blood vessel and the surrounding muscular wall, allowing an improved blood flow.
- A stent may be inserted at the time of ballooning to ensure the vessel remains open, and the balloon is then deflated and withdrawn.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Angioplasty article was read about 92,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Angioplasty
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Angioplasty (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Xander89, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
