Operative transluminal balloon angioplasty

Follow-up Study after Intracranial Percutaneous Transluminal Cerebral Balloon Angioplasty.

SUMMARY To find the angiographic lesions specific characteristics appropriate for intracranial percutaneous transluminal cerebral angioplasty (PTCBA). Forty-two clinically symptomatic patients with 42 haemodynamically significant intracranial lesions (% diameter stenosis > 70) were treated by PTCBA between January 1992 and May 1996. Before the angioplasty treatment, the patients were classified...

Transluminal Angioplasty

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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is a nonoperative mechanical dilatation of atherosclerotic coronary artery stenosis by a balloon-tipped dilating catheter system. This method can effectively reduce highly stenotic coronary lesions and provide early recovery of ischemic but viable myocardium. The technique of transluminal angioplasty was originally devised by Dotter and Judk...

Conventional angioplasty versus percutaneous transluminal laser angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.