Angioplasty

Conventional angioplasty versus percutaneous transluminal laser angioplasty.

Coronary Angioplasty

band, increasing from less than 1,000 per year in 1979–1981 to more than 300,000 per year in 1991. This was similar to the annual number of bypass operations . The number of annual catheterizations has now grown to approximately 1.4 million, with one of three patients who undergo diagnostic cardiac catheterization being referred for coronary angioplasty, compared with one of four being referred...

Rescue angioplasty

uring the 1980s, thrombolytic therapy became the initial reatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction AMI). Toward the end of the decade, primary percutaneus coronary intervention (PCI) was shown to be effective 1,2), and a recent analysis of 23 randomized trials demontrated improved rates of reinfarction, stroke, and death ompared with thrombolytic therapy (3). However, because f lim...

Transluminal Angioplasty

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Balloon Angioplasty

It is difficult to think of balloon angioplasty as a mature technique with which new devices must now be compared. It seems as if it were only yesterday that Gruentzig demonstrated a new and radical approach to myocardial revascularization.1 As success rates have leveled off at 90% or higher, half or more of current patients have complex or multivessel disease, bail-out methods and surgical bac...