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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan [PDF]

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Koichi Kawabuchi, Shigeru Sugihara
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1981
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has recently gained acceptance and popularity in the United States as an alternative to coronary artery bypass surgery for selected patients who have coronary disease. The interventional radiologist, with the use of x-ray imaging and percutaneously introduced catheters, can now diagnose and treat ...
J A, Purcell, P A, Giffin
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Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
Abstract This retrospective study of 91 percutaneous transluminal angioplasties in 80 patients showed an overall patency rate by life-table analysis of 46 percent with a follow-up period of 36 months. Success rates were significantly reduced by predilatation ankle-brachial ratios less than 0.45, by diabetes, by pain at rest or necrosis, and somewhat,
Ronald W. Knight   +3 more
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PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL MESENTERIC ANGIOPLASTY

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1997
The endovascular treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia remains in its infancy. This state is most certainly related to the small patient population affected by this devastating condition and the surgeon's limited desire to pursue percutaneous options for this group.
C A, Hackworth, J A, Leef
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Coronary Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Excerpt Last summer the popular news media, ever eager for a "breakthrough," gave a good bit of space and time to a new approach to the treatment of coronary heart disease, coronary percutaneous tr...
T R, Engel, S G, Meister
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 1988
The relief of coronary obstruction by surgical grafting was the first effective treatment to be directed at the cause of ischemic heart disease. PTCA represents the second major step in relieving coronary stenosis. It seems timely to review where this second step has led in order to understand how percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA ...
R E, Vlietstra, D R, Holmes
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty—I

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1979
Abstract To the editor: In their well-written editorial note in the February issue, Engel and Meister (1) raise appropriate caveats about the mixed blessings and potential dangers of the promising ...
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