CHATTANOOGA, TN – Dr. Chris LeSar joins us this week on Tech Byte to talk about Orbital Atherectomy. It sounds like a big scary word, but I told him I thought it was a fancy word for a high tech Dremel tool he has.

According to our favorite Doctor, “The Atherectomy is a, a technique where we remove blockages from inside an artery. You can have a minimally invasive or maximally invasive, maximally invasive surgery. Minimally invasive is what we’re going to talk about today,” says Dr. LeSar.

Dr. Lesar and his wife are personal friends of mine, and he always jokes that he’s a plumber and fixes and cleans pipes. Few people realize that he’s one of the top surgeons in the world in his field, so I always laugh that he calls himself a plumber.

“Orbital Atherectomy is a, a device that we use

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