Percutaneous radial access for peripheral transluminal angioplasty

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is a nonoperative mechanical dilatation of atherosclerotic coronary artery stenosis by a balloon-tipped dilating catheter system. This method can effectively reduce highly stenotic coronary lesions and provide early recovery of ischemic but viable myocardium. The technique of transluminal angioplasty was originally devised by Dotter and Judk...

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.

IN 1963 Dr Charles Dotter, a radiologist of Portland, Oregon whilst performing an aortogram by retrograde catheterisation of the right iliac artery inadvertently passed his guide wire, and then a catheter, through a complete occlusion of the artery. There was a palpable though diminished femoral pulse in the groin and the catheter was passed easily. It was only when radiographs were taken that ...

Patient sex and success of peripheral percutaneous transluminal arterial angioplasty.

HYPOTHESIS Female sex negatively affects the durability of percutaneous angioplasty of native arteries supplying the lower extremity. DESIGN Outcome analysis of the results of percutaneous angioplasty of lower extremity arteries in a single vascular surgery practice. SETTING University-affiliated community hospital. PATIENTS All patients undergoing percutaneous intervention on lower extre...

Conventional angioplasty versus percutaneous transluminal laser angioplasty.