Short term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with the monorail technique: experience in the first 1000 patients.

Short term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with the monorail technique: experience in the first 1000 patients.

The monorail technique allows monitoring of all steps of the coronary angioplasty procedure by high quality coronary angiography; easy, rapid, and safe recrossing and redilatation of the lesion if necessary; and stepwise dilatation of a stenosis with sequential increase of size of balloons. Transstenotic pressure differences cannot, however, be measured through the narrow shaft of the standard ...

Assessment of patients skin dose undergoing coronary angiography and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)

Background: Practice of interventional cardiology procedures such as Coronary angiography (CA) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has largely increased in recent years and is now changing to a matter of routine in many hospitals. The purpose of this study was to measure skin and organ doses in patients undergoing CA and PTCA and to find a probable relation with c...

Early results after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 400 patients.

In a consecutive series of 400 patients treated by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty 212 had single vessel disease, 142 had multivessel disease with only one vessel dilated, and 46 had multivessel dilatation. In addition sequential stenoses were dilated in the same vessel in all groups. There was no mortality among patients with single vessel disease. Success rates varied from 83% ...

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.