Chronic Total Obstruction and Short-Term Outcome: The Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty Registry Experience
| Autor: | Frank Cummins, Guy S. Reeder, Frank Litvack, John F. Bresnahan, Tsvi Goldenberg, Donald Rothbaum, David R. Holmes, Martin B. Leon, James S. Forrester |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Coronary Disease Angioplasty Laser Lesion Postoperative Complications Recurrence Internal medicine Angioplasty Outcome Assessment Health Care Occlusion medicine Humans Major complication Myocardial infarction Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Balloon catheter General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Coronary Vessels Surgery Stenosis medicine.anatomical_structure Chronic Disease Cardiology Female medicine.symptom business Artery |
| Zdroj: | Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 68:5-10 |
| ISSN: | 0025-6196 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0025-6196(12)60012-3 |
| Popis: | Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for chronic total obstructions is associated with significantly decreased success rates in comparison with those for dilation of subtotal stenoses. Failure usually results from inability to cross the occlusive lesion with a guidewire, although it may result from inability to pass the balloon catheter after the guidewire has been passed. In the Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty Registry, 172 chronic total obstructions were treated in 162 patients (10.3% of the 1,569 patients entered). For chronic total obstructions, passage of a guidewire is a prerequisite for laser angioplasty. Once a guidewire crossed an occlusion, the overall laser success rate for treatment of chronic total obstructions was 83%; the extent of stenosis decreased from 100% to 55 +/- 26%. Success was independent of length of the occlusive lesion. In 74% of patients, adjunctive percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was used after laser angioplasty. A final procedural success, defined as residual stenosis of less than 50% and no major complication (coronary artery bypass grafting, myocardial infarction, or death), was achieved in 90%. Major complications were infrequent; 1.2% of patients required coronary artery bypass grafting, and 1.9% had a Q-wave myocardial infarction. Only one death occurred. The use of laser angioplasty may be of particular value when chronic total obstructions can be crossed with a guidewire but not with a conventional balloon catheter or when the occlusion is confirmed to be extremely long. |
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