Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty immediately after intracoronary streptolysis of transmural myocardial infarction.

Role of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction.

Intracoronary electrocardiographic deflections during transmural ischemia induced by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Patient 1 Baseline 0.68 0 16.93 0 1.12 2.88 B1 0.34 1.22 71.88 0 13.90 56.60 Patient 2 Baseline 1.41 17.03 149.76 0 3.75 −12.44 B1 1.22 15.37 159.38 0 5.22 −17.08 Patient 3 Baseline 0.16 0 94.13 60.46 1.36 23.96 B1 0.13 0 101.99 37.13 13.61 48.75 Patient 4 Baseline 3.80 2.87 32.84 51.58 3.56 19.86 B1 1.14 8.10 103.84 12.73 16.10 50.11 Intracoronary electrocardiographic deflections during transm...

Transmural , haemorrhagic myocardial infarction after intracoronary streptokinase

Six of 101 patients with acute myocardial infarction whose coronary arteries were successfully recanalised died in cardiogenic shock one to 18 days after intracoronary thrombolysis. In one patient, cardiogenic shock was preceded by coronary artery reocclusion. On admission, serum creatine kinase was still normal in all six patients and there was significant ST elevation but no changes in the QR...

Pathological findings after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Ten serial pathological cross sections at 1 mm intervals of both the left anterior descending artery at the site of a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and of the circumflex artery in the untreated stenotic area were studied at necropsy in a patient who died immediately after the procedure. The extent of calcification and atheroma were similar in both branches. Intimal or medial sp...

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...