Fulfilling the Promise of Percutaneous Angioplasty

Fulfilling the promise of percutaneous angioplasty.

It is ironic that in 1964, Dotters’ initial application of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) targeted femoral-popliteal stenoses. Now, nearly 4 decades later, although angioplasty has gained wide acceptance as a firstline treatment for diseased coronary, iliac, and renal arteries, its role in femoral-popliteal vessels remains controversial and poorly defined. The initial PTA procedure...

Fulfilling the promise of evidence-based medicine.

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Fulfilling the Promise of the Cognitive Neurosciences

The paper by Meyer-Lindenberg and colleagues in this issue of Neuron provides strong evidence that the absence of one or more genes in Williams syndrome leads to highly circumscribed pathology in the dorsal visual stream. This program of research demonstrates that neurocognitive architecture follows the same principles in typical and atypical development.

Fulfilling the promise of Mendelian randomization

Fulfilling the promise of primary care spirometry.

I t is a truth universally acknowledged that the simplest and most reliable way of assessing the function of the lungs is to make a spirometric measurement. Well, perhaps not universally acknowledged, but there is an increasing acceptance that the diagnosis of many lung diseases should involve a measurement of the functional capacity of the respiratory system and although this does not always t...