The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in men’s sexual function after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) treatment for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Sixty men aged 18–70 ...

Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for anastomotic stenosis after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with Kawasaki disease ...

Bethesda, MD The more you know, the more you need to know. So it would seem in the increasingly complex debate over whether primary angioplasty is better than pharmacological thrombolysis, after such ...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PCTA) is a surgical procedure to treat heart disease. It involves inserting a small balloon into the arteries to manage blockages or restore blood flow. A person ...

Ratings by an expert panel of the appropriateness of treatments may offer better guidance for clinical practice than the variable decisions of individual clinicians, yet there have been no prospective ...

Next-generation balloon catheter offers enhanced deliverability and expanded options for treating coronary artery lesions NATICK, Mass., Boston Scientific Corporation announces CE Mark and European ...

When Andreas Grüntzig, MD, performed the first coronary angioplasty in a human patient in September 1977 in Zurich, Switzerland, he forever altered the landscape of cardiology. “Forty years later, we ...