It was once a pioneering treatment which was hailed as revolutionary when brought to Norwich for heart attack patients.
But now the vast majority of people arriving at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) receive angioplasty - a life-saving treatment a centre was opened specially for 10 years ago.
In April 2009 the Norfolk Heart Attack Centre, based at the NNUH, launched to provide 24/7 access to the artery clearing treatment, which had previously only been available for those with angina.
At the time this newspaper reported it was expected to halve the death rate from the most deadly kind of heart attacks and put the county on par with best standard treatment across the country.
Angioplasty restores blood flow to the heart by inflating a small balloon in the artery, through an artery in the arm or leg.
The money for the NNUH centre was raised through a public appeal and it was hoped it would halve the mortality rate from the most severe form of heart attack - a ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) - from 8pc to 4pc.
In 2007/08 no heart attack patients at the NNUH received angioplasty, with this increasing to just five in 2008/09.
But by 2010/11 402 patients - 92pc of those eligible - got angioplasty within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital.
By 2016/2017 this was holding at roughly the same rate at 91pc.
The Norfolk Heart Trust raised more than £1m for the centre with it's Balloons for Hearts campaign, and Dr Tony Page from the charity said previously patients faced long journeys for treatment.
Dr Page said: 'We were very concerned people were having to travel a very long way to get procedures done at Papworth when we could very easily do it here, we had the expertise but not the equipment. One important thing was that was the time when primary angioplasty was getting going, this is when they were having their coronaries, and were being rushed into hospital. But it's not good if you have to rush someone across to Papworth, by then it was too late.'
The gold standard is to treat a patient with angioplasty within 90 minutes.
And Dr Page said the treatment made a 'massive difference' in the county.
'It made a huge difference for people's recovery rate,' he said.
The charity has continued to raise millions for the NNUH cardiology department and is currently helping with equipment for the hospital's new catheterisation laboratory.
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