Stenting in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has the benefits of achieving acute optimal angiographic results and correcting residual dissection to decrease the incidence of restenosis and reocclusion. Studies have shown that percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for primary treatment after AMI is superior to thrombolytic therapy regarding the restoration of normal coronary blood flow...

to be the obvious choice for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. X-ray equipment, coupled with digital capabilities and contrast media injection, seems to provide excellent road maps for vascular interventions. This is demonstrated by innumerable percutaneous transluminal angioplasties (PTA) and coronary angioplasties (PTCA). At second glance, however, there are many attractive aspects of vascular...

Diabetes mellitus, a major determinant of cardiovascular events, portends an adverse prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease regardless of treatment strategy. Among patients undergoing coronary revascularization procedures, the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) trial (1) demonstrated an unfavorable interaction between diabetes and an initial strategy of percut...

OBJECTIVE As the mortality associated with coronary artery bypass grafts has fallen, morbidity has become an increasing problem. The improvement of transluminal carotid angioplasty is enlarged to patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis (> 85%) requiring coronary surgery. METHODS Between January 1993 and January 1995, 10 patients underwent percutaneous carotid angioplasty prior to c...

Ten serial pathological cross sections at 1 mm intervals of both the left anterior descending artery at the site of a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and of the circumflex artery in the untreated stenotic area were studied at necropsy in a patient who died immediately after the procedure. The extent of calcification and atheroma were similar in both branches. Intimal or medial sp...

BACKGROUND Because heterogeneous results have been reported, we assessed coronary flow velocity changes in individuals who underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and examined their impact on clinical outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS As part of the Doppler Endpoints Balloon Angioplasty Trial Europe (DEBATE) II study, 379 patients underwent Doppler flow-guided angioplasty. ...

The combination of diagnostic coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has numerous names. It has been referred to as ad hoc, follow-on, one-time, one-stage, single-stage, single session, diagnostic session, stop and go, or dessert PTCA. "PTCA at first sight" is the term coined for PTCA performed after the first diagnostic coronary angiogram.1 I propose to use the term "ad hoc PTCA"...

Coronary artery ectasia is well-known but relatively uncommon finding with prevalence ranging from 1.2% to 5.3%. Coronary artery ectasia has been associated with atherosclerosis in approximately half of the cases. Here, we are presenting a case of male patient who experienced myocardial infarction and was diagnosed with coronary artery ectasia in proximal-mid junction of left anterior descendin...