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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1981Percutaneous 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 ...
Patti Alfred Giffin, Julia Ann Purcell
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 1988The 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 ...
David R. Holmes, Ronald E. Vlietstra
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1984Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty appears to be an effective alternative to coronary artery bypass surgery in patients whose coronary artery anatomy is suitable--that is, an individual with single (or, at most, double) vessel coronary artery disease whose stenoses are proximal, discrete, subtotal, concentric and noncalcified.
G. Jang, P. Ross
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Coronary Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979Excerpt 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...
Toby R. Engel, Steven G. Meister
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in the Elderly
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1996Selected elderly patients, even the very elderly, can undergo percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with a high expected rate of procedural success; however, procedural mortality is higher than in younger patients and, although long-term survival is very good, long-term relief of angina is less reliable.
David R. Holmes, Randall C. Thompson
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Rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1998Fibrinolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, even with the most efficient regimens available, is fraught with a substantial proportion of failures to reopen the occluded vessel. The term rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been introduced to describe an attempt to mechanically recanalize the infarct vessel if ...
Frank A. Flachskampf, Stephen G. Ellis
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Octogenarians
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1990To assess the safety and short- and long-term outcomes of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in octogenarians.Retrospective chart review of clinical series.Referral-based university medical center.Consecutive series of 54 octogenarian patients (mean age, 82.4 years) who had percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty between March 1980 ...
William L. Winters +6 more
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in octogenarians
The American Journal of Cardiology, 1988Abstract Extensive data are available on the results of nonoperative coronary revascularization using percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in patients over the age of 65, 1–3 but few data are available in the subgroup of patients in their octogenarian years.
Kathy Galan +8 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 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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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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Update on Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
Cardiology Clinics, 1988Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was first performed in a human coronary artery in 1977. In this article, we review the possible mechanisms of angioplasty, current indications for angioplasty, and complications of angioplasty including acute closure and restenosis.
Henry S. Cabin, Michael W. Cleman
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