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Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

The most important advantage of laser angioplasty or excimer laser angioplasty, is that you need only a standard guidwire, 0.014 inch standard guide wire, unlike the other atherectomy devices which require a bulkier guidewire. Diagrammatic representation of laser angioplasty or atherectomy. One is in-stent restenosis.

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Simpson Interventions Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Acolyte Image Guided Crossing and Re-Entry Catheter System

DAIC

Getty Images milla1cf Fri, 04/12/2024 - 20:55 April 12, 2024 — Simpson Interventions, Inc. , If a physician fails to cross a CTO, minimally invasive revascularization options such as angioplasty and stent placement cannot be performed. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).

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Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty for De Novo Lesions on the Left Anterior Descending Artery

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print.

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Five-Year Safety and Effectiveness of Paclitaxel Drug-Coated Balloons Alone or With Provisional Bare Metal Stenting for Real-World Femoropopliteal Lesions: IN.PACT Global Study Subgroup Analysis

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The treatment of complex infra-inguinal disease with drug-coated balloons (DCBs) is associated with a significant number of patients undergoing provisional stenting to treat a suboptimal result. stented versus 45.0% stented versus 19.3% nonstented, log-rankP=0.99).CONCLUSIONS:In

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular diseases hospitalisation, management and mortality in Switzerland

Open Heart

The total number of admissions with cardiovascular interventions increased from 55 181 in 2017 to 57 864 in 2019, and decreased in 2020, with an estimated reduction of 4414 admissions; percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was the exception, as the number and percentage of emergency admissions with PTCA increased.

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Avocados for the Heart; Cardiology's Sad State; CBD for Pulmonary Hypertension?

Heart 2023 Conference

American College of Cardiology Journal) Are you thinking of stopping your antiplatelet medication too soon after angioplasty? Reconsider your position.

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Right precordial ST depression in a patient with chest pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

New electrocardiographic criteria for posterior wall myocardial ischemia validated by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty model of acute myocardial infarction. About half of patients receiving elective balloon angioplasty of the circumflex will show posterior STE ≥ 1mm. (8-12) Neth Heart J. 2007; 15: 16-21. Wung SF, Drew BJ.