Percutaneous Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty: Results of One Center in a Multi-Center Investigation
| Autor: | Robert W. Ninneman, Joy M. Nonnweiler, Frank Cummins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Percutaneous medicine.medical_treatment Biomedical Engineering Coronary Artery Disease Balloon Angioplasty Laser Coronary artery disease Restenosis Recurrence Angioplasty medicine Humans Angioplasty Balloon Coronary Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Excimer laser business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Cohort Female business Complication |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery. 10:171-175 |
| ISSN: | 1557-8089 1044-5471 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/clm.1992.10.171 |
| Popis: | A retrospective analysis of data accumulated over a 21-month period, from December 1989 to September 1991, regarding investigational use of a 308 nanometer Xenon Chloride Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty (ELCA) system (Advanced Interventional Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA) was performed. It included a cohort of 131 persons with coronary artery disease who underwent 158 laser angioplasty procedures for attempted treatment of a total of 206 atherosclerotic lesions. Approximately 17% of the lesions treated with ELCA were chronic occlusions, 20% were diffuse lesions greater than 20 mm in length and 30% of the initial ELCA lesions were restenoses of previous balloon-treated sites. Our initial results with ELCA demonstrate similar rates of success, complication, mortality, and restenosis when compared with the larger historical experience with standard coronary balloon technique. In selected subgroups, such as chronically occluded coronary lesions, the acute success rate when using ELCA appears superior to published success rates when similar lesions have been treated with conventional technology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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