The family of a Texas man who died after an angioplasty procedure has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital where he was treated.

In 2002 Santos Salinas was ordered an angiogram at Valley Baptist Medical Center. The test was suposed to examine Salinas' blood vessels. Instead, the family alleges, Dr. Farley Neasman performed an angioplasty on the man. A surgical procedure that widens a blocked blood vessel.

Attorneys for the Salinas family claim that Santos was killed when he was given the blood thinner Herapin before the procedure. The lawsuit claims that the drug caused Santos to hemorrhage and go into cardiac arrest, which eventually killed him.

The hospital has not released a statement.

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