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Interventional Cardiology
Percutaneous cardiac interventions were introduced in the 1960s, and, with the introduction of percutaneous coronary interventions by Gruentzig in 1978, the field has had an astounding growth. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most commonly preformed revascularization technique in the United States today with an estimated 492 000 procedures done in 2010 (Figure 1). This exceeds th...
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Minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures have revolutionized the treatment of cardiovascular disease, and transcatheter interventions are becoming more commonplace in veterinary medicine. Transcatheter procedures allow for treatment of several cardiac defects without the attendant morbidity and mortality associated with thoracic surgery. Interventional procedures are available for treatmen...
متن کاملOptimism and interventional cardiology.
One day, a decade ago, I was trying to place a coronary stent. It wasn’t going well. I grumbled to Tammy, the cath technologist assisting me, that it looked like we were going to fail. Tammy looked me straight in the eye and said, “Dr. Blankenship, you really are a pessimistic person.” After the case ended successfully, her comment lingered. That night, somewhat defensively, I asked my wife, “I...
متن کاملInterventional Cardiology and Surgery
Objective: To analyse the long term prognosis in patients with isolated stenoses of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) following surgical revascularisation. Patients: 106 patients (71 men and 35 women, mean age 61 years) were operated on between 1982 and 1998. Before surgery, 103 patients presented with angina pectoris and only 10 had a history of myocardial infarction. Their mean left ventri...
متن کاملInterventional Cardiology and Surgery
Objective: To report one year results of the MERLIN (Middlesbrough early revascularisation to limit infarction) trial, a prospective randomised trial comparing the strategy of coronary angiography and urgent revascularisation with conservative treatment in patients with failed fibrinolysis complicating ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The 30 day results have recently been pub...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.01.017