Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Role of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for angina pectoris after a non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction.

Despite initially favorable prognosis in patients with non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction (AMI), long-term mortality in this subset of patients appears to be similar to or even greater than that in patients with Q-wave AMI. The relatively poor late prognosis is primarily due to a high incidence of unstable angina and recurrent AMI. Between January 1982 and January 1987, 114 patients with su...

Predictors of Success and Major Complications for Primary Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine predictors of successful coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (MI) and associated predictors of the major complications of in-hospital mortality and emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Background. Primary angioplasty is being increasingly used to treat acute MI, but factors affecting the success and major complic...

Emergency percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for intractable ventricular arrhythmias associated with acute anterior myocardial infarction.

A previously fit marathon-running 54 year old man was admitted as an emergency having collapsed with chest pain caused by an acute transmural anterior myocardial infarction. He was initially resuscitated by his general practitioner then had recurrent episodes of ventricular flutter and fibrillation requiring continuing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and repeated defibrillation. During ambulance ...

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...