The author has just written a book on the evolution of specialty Pediatric Cardiology over last 50 years [1]. intent this review is to present summary book. Because large amount material, separated into four parts. In first part, transcatheter interventions (balloon angioplasty/valvuloplasty procedures) will be appraised.

Percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty was performed in five children with coarctation restenosis. After angioplasty the pressure gradient had decreased considerably in four patients. In all patients aortography showed an increase in the diameter of the lumen at the site of the restenosis. All patients were normotensive the day after angioplasty. There were no complications during or aft...

AIMS To evaluate whether stents as compared to balloon angioplasty reduce mortality in patients with non-acute coronary artery disease. METHODS AND RESULTS We identified randomized controlled trials comparing stents to balloon angioplasty for the treatment of non-acute coronary artery disease by searching major medical databases from 1979 to March 2002. Two independent reviewers selected and ...

Balloon angioplasty of the coronary arteries was first developed in the 1970s as an alternative means of revascularization to coronary artery bypass surgery. A major drawback with balloon angioplasty alone was the high rate of abrupt vessel closure resulting from acute arterial recoil and coronary artery dissection. The introduction of bare metal stents (BMS) in the early 1990s revolutionized p...

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is more sensitive than angiography in the assessment of plaque characteristics before intervention and vascular damage after balloon angioplasty. On the basis of IVUS data, this finding may improve clinical treatment by reducing the incidence of severe dissections after balloon angioplasty. We therefore studied the relation between plaque characteristics and diss...

Balloon angioplasty was developed as the first non-surgical method to treat coronary artery stenosis, thanks to the pioneering work by Andreas Gruentzig from 1977 to 1986. The method is based on mechanical stenosis relief by balloon dilatation. Vessel wall stretch, as well as plaque compaction and redistribution, are the main mechanisms of angioplasty lumen gain. The technique had a relatively ...

a. At 5 years (median 34 months), correction of renal artery stenosis (RAS), by balloon angioplasty with or without stenting (no distal protection) has no beneficial effect on blood pressure (BP) compared with medical therapy and is associated with an adverse event rate of 10–25%. (Level I Evidence) b. At 5 years (median 34 months), correction of RAS, by balloon angioplasty with or without sten...

Treatment for symptomatic atherosclerosis is being carried out by balloon mediated angioplasty, with or without stent implantation, more and more frequently. Although advances with the development of drug eluting stents have improved prognosis, restenosis is still the most limiting factor for this treatment modality. Urotensin-II (UII), a small pleiotropic vasoactive peptide is increasingly bei...

CONTEXT Rapid time to treatment with thrombolytic therapy is associated with lower mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). However, data on time to primary angioplasty and its relationship to mortality are inconclusive. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that more rapid time to reperfusion results in lower mortality in the strategy of primary angioplasty. DESIGN Prospecti...

Review of the MEDLINE, Embase, Web Science, and Cochrane databases through February 1, 2021. There were 1348 patients from 14 eligible studies (10 prospective, randomized; 4 retrospective) with femoropopliteal artery in-stent restenosis (FP-ISR) who underwent plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA), drug-coated (DCBA), peripheral cutting angioplasty, Viabahn endoprosthesis, directional atherectomy...