Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty of Crural Arteries

[Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the brachiocephalic arteries].

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was used to treat atherosclerotic lesions in 22 brachiocephalic arteries in 20 patients during a 2 1/2 year period. Seven subclavian, 13 vertebral, one external carotid, and one common carotid arteries were involved. Nineteen arteries were successfully dilated, but dilatation of two vertebral arteries and attempted recanalization of one subclavian artery fa...

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...

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.

IN 1963 Dr Charles Dotter, a radiologist of Portland, Oregon whilst performing an aortogram by retrograde catheterisation of the right iliac artery inadvertently passed his guide wire, and then a catheter, through a complete occlusion of the artery. There was a palpable though diminished femoral pulse in the groin and the catheter was passed easily. It was only when radiographs were taken that ...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of stenosed

During the period between October 1980 and December 1982, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of stenosed aortocoronary bypass grafts was attempted 44 times in 31 patients who had developed disabling angina pectoris four months to seven years after coronary bypass surgery. The primary success rate was 93%. Two (4-5%) patients developed myocardial infarction related to the procedure. No emerge...