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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 1979
DR. Andreas Gruntzig and his colleagues are to be congratulated. In this issue of the Journal, they report on their experience with their first 50 patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coro...
R I, Levy, M B, Mock, V I, Willman, P L, Frommer   +3 more
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Restenosis after percutaneous angioplasty: the role of vascular inflammation

Vascular Health and Risk Management, 2005
Martin Schillinger, Erich MinarDepartment of Angiology, University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna,AustriaAbstract: Restenosis after endovascular treatment of atherosclerotic lesions in the peripheral, cerebrovascular, and coronary circulation is the ...
Martin Schillinger, Erich Minar
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1985
Dotter and Judkins (1) in 1964 reported the use of coaxial dilating catheters in remodeling the lumen of obstructed peripheral arteries. In Zurich in 1977 Griintzig (2) reported the first transcutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty using a system for mechanically dilating a stenosed epicar• dial artery.
M, Libow, A R, Gruentzig, L, Greene
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Giant Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm After Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. [PDF]

JACC Case Rep
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (LVPA) is a rare but life-threatening complication that commonly occurs secondary to myocardial infarction, surgery, trauma, and infection.
Long X, Zhang H, Li C.
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Optimising coronary reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction: the role of primary angioplasty [PDF]

, 2007
PhDThrombolysis remains the predominant reperfusion strategy for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the United Kingdom. Although primary angioplasty may offer superior outcomes, the logistics of delivering this therapy in the UK ...
Smith, Elliot J
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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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Cost effectiveness of clinically appropriate decisions on alternative treatments for angina pectoris: prospective observational study [PDF]

, 2007
Objective: To assess whether revascularisation that is considered to be clinically appropriate is also cost effective. Design: Prospective observational study comparing cost effectiveness of coronary artery bypass grafting, percutaneous coronary ...
Sculpher, M.J., Griffin, S.C., Barber, J.A., Manca, A., Buxton, M.J., Hemingway, H., Thompson, S.G.   +6 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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