Coronary Angioplasty
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band, increasing from less than 1,000 per year in 1979–1981 to more than 300,000 per year in 1991. This was similar to the annual number of bypass operations . The number of annual catheterizations has now grown to approximately 1.4 million, with one of three patients who undergo diagnostic cardiac catheterization being referred for coronary angioplasty, compared with one of four being referred for bypass surgery. CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; PTCA, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. (From American College of Cardiology; see also Bittl JA. Advances in coronary angioplasty. 1996;335:1290.) 23
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