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Cape Cod Hospital will continue to perform emergency angioplasties for the time being, but no longer as part of a Johns Hopkins study.

State Department of Public Health officials will help to set up a registry for emergency angioplasty patients, said department spokesman Mark Leccese.

Once that is established, Cape Cod Hospital and other community hospitals that had been part of the Johns Hopkins study can apply to participate in the registry, Leccese said.