Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty of Subclavian Artery Lesions

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of subclavian stenosis from neurofibromatosis.

Vascular involvement in neurofibromatosis type 1 occurs in approximately 9% of patients in autopsy series (1). Vascular symptoms are usually from renal artery stenosis or cerebral arterial occlusion. Treatment of symptomatic vascular neurofibromatosis has been by medical and surgical means as well as more recently by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) (2, 3). We report a case of stenos...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the carotid artery.

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is being extensively applied to treat arteriosclerotic lesions. However, this application has not been widely accepted for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis. Successful attempts to relieve cerebral ischemia from extracranial carotid arterial stenosis by PTA are reported. Twenty-seven patients with arteriosclerotic stenosis, fibromuscular diseas...

[Subclavian steal syndrome. Bypass surgery or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty].

The authors are presenting two patients with subclavian steal syndrome successfully treated by axillo-axillary bypass or by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, and discuss the choice of procedures for the correction of the subclavian steal syndrome. The first patient was a 48-year-old man complaining of easy fatiguability of the right arm and ver tigo. No neurological abnormality was found, ...

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.