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Socioeconomic status correlates with the prevalence of advanced coronary artery disease in the United States. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Increasingly studies have identified socioeconomic factors adversely affecting healthcare outcomes for a multitude of diseases. To date, however, there has not been a study correlating socioeconomic details from nationwide databases on the ...
Bronislava Bashinskaya, Brian V Nahed, Brian P Walcott, Jean-Valery C E Coumans, Oyere K Onuma   +4 more
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Balloon Angioplasty - The Legacy of Andreas Grüntzig, M.D. (1939-1985)

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2014
In 1974, at the Medical Policlinic of the University of Zürich, German-born physician-scientist Andreas Grüntzig (1939-1985) successfully applied a balloon-tipped catheter to re-open a severely stenosed femoral artery, a procedure which he initially ...
Matthias eBarton, MD, FAHA, Johannes eGrüntzig, MD, Marc eHusmann, MD, Josef eRösch, MD   +3 more
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The periprocedural myocardial infarction and probability of the developing of the contrast-induced acute kidneys injury in clinical practice. Case report

Терапевтический архив, 2021
Nowadays, taking into account the number of elderly patients with sеveral associated diseases requiring percutaneous transluminal balloon coronary angioplasty (PTCA), the risk of the development of unwanted complications is also growing.
Olga A. Dmitrieva, Olga Yu. Mironova, Olga A. Sivakova, Anastasiia R. Denisova, Tatiana D. Solnceva, Victor V. Fomin   +5 more
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Diplopia After Coronary Revascularization

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2020
Percutaneous coronary intervention is a coronary revascularization procedure that may rarely result in thromboembolic events. Although infrequent, ophthalmological complications of percutaneous interventions include a wide range of clinical presentations,
Joana Braga, Filipe Neves, João Costa, Dália Meira   +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 triggered seizure complicated by fatal subdural hematoma under edoxaban and clopidogrel

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 associated coagulopathy may manifest as hypocoagulability with a propensity for bleeding. Here we report a COVID-19 patient with fatal subdural hematoma (SDH) shortly after thrombendarteriectomy (TEA), and anticoagulation together with anti ...
Josef Finsterer, Maria Korn
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Intervenção coronariana percutânea em artéria coronariana única em paciente com angina instável de alto risco Percutaneous coronary intervention in single coronary artery in a patient with hig-risk unstable angina

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2007
No presente caso, relatamos a realização de angioplastia coronariana com implante de stent na artéria coronariana direita de paciente com quadro de angina instável de alto risco, portadora de artéria coronariana única com origem no seio coronariano ...
Hugo Alexandre Ross Yokoyama, Caio Mário de Almeida Pessoa, Fábio Cardoso de Carvalho, Ricardo Fernando de Campos, Roberto Jorge da Silva Franco, Edson Antonio Bregagnollo   +5 more
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Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm Following Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2021
Coronary artery aneurysm following percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is rare in interventional cardiology. Several factors may contribute to the development of such complication following PTCA that include stent size, improper apposition, nature ...
Sudeb Mukherjee, Soumyakanti Datta, Saumyajit Ghosh, Sankar Chandra Mandal   +3 more
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 1980
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, first performed in man in 1977, has been used increasingly in selected patients with angina pectoris due to coronary atherosclerosis. Patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease in whom the stenosis is relatively proximal, noncalcified, discrete, and tapered rather than eccentric are the best ...
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Patterns of the association among ultrasound, hemodynamic and biochemical parameters of atherosclerosis of the carotid and coronary arteries in patients with coronary heart disease

Сибирский научный медицинский журнал, 2021
An increase in the proportion of comorbid cardiac patients with primary nosologies such as arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis actualizes the search for optimal approaches to their diagnosis and treatment.
V. Ya. Polyakov, A. A. Starichkova, Yu. A. Nikolaev, O. V. Sippolaynen, E. V. Sevostyanova   +4 more
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Design of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty balloon catheters

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2023
Background Eight commercially available percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), including semi-compliant and non-compliant balloons, have been assessed in detail on their tip, balloon, shaft, RX-Port, and hypotube design.
C. Amstutz, J. Behr, S. Krebs, A. Haeberlin, R. Vogel, A. Zurbuchen, J. Burger   +6 more
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