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Balloon Angioplasty - The Legacy of Andreas Grüntzig, M.D. (1939-1985)
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 +3 more
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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 +5 more
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Diplopia After Coronary Revascularization
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 +3 more
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Diagnósticos de enfermagem de pacientes submetidos à angioplastia coronária transluminal percutânea à luz dos pressupostos de Horta [PDF]
The objective of this study was to identify and to analyze the nursing diagnoses of patients post-percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, based on the Taxonomy II of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association - International and ones the ...
Marina Morato Stival +2 more
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Endovascular Stenting for Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: From Diagnosis to Intervention. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is an uncommon but serious complication of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, often misinterpreted as primary pulmonary disease. Timely identification is essential to prevent irreversible injury and to guide appropriate referral for interventional management. Case Presentations Through the discussion of
Aurigemma C +14 more
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SARS-CoV-2 triggered seizure complicated by fatal subdural hematoma under edoxaban and clopidogrel
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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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty [PDF]
In a six-year period (1982–1987), 248 patients were treated with 297 procedures (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, PTCA) on 282 vessels. Two hundred and fifty-nine (87.2%) of the procedures in 210 (76.7%) of the patients appeared successful angiographically.
K, Vatne +5 more
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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 +5 more
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Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm Following Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
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 +3 more
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
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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