The nonsurgical treatment of arteries narrowed by atherosclerosis was introduced in 1964,
when Dotter and Judkins performed transluminal angioplasty of femoral arterial stenoses 1 . …

… IN 1979, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute established a voluntary registry of
percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty to evaluate the safety and efficacy of this new …

… The first 169 patients in whom percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was performed
have now been followed for five to eight years. The procedure was technically successful …

In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a catheter system is introduced through
a systemic artery under local anesthesia to dilate a stenotic artery by controlled inflation of a …

… National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Registry report of complications with percutaneous
transluminal coronary angioplasty (abstr). Am J Cardiol 1981;47:396. Kent KM, Bentivoglio …

… Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty is now widely accepted as a nonsurgical
revascularization procedure for selected patients with coronary artery disease. Its long-term …

… In cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction, percutaneous transluminal
coronary angioplasty has been reported to significantly improve the modest survival benefits af…

… In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) the relationships between
transstenotic pressure gradient, diameter stenosis, and lesion length are imprecisely known. We …

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, first performed in man in 1977, has been
used increasingly in selected patients with angina pectoris due to coronary atherosclerosis. …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: … Percutaneous transluminal coronary
angioplasty with and without thrombolytic therapy for treatment of acute mvocardial infarction. …