When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percutaneous_coronary...

   Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. [2] The procedure is used to place and deploy coronary stents, a permanent wire-meshed tube, to open narrowed coronary arteries. PCI is considered 'non-surgical ...

3. Julio Palmaz - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Palmaz

   Currently approximately one million stents are implanted annually worldwide. The balloon angioplasty augmented with the use of the stent has become the preferred treatment for atherosclerosis. However, the stent has not completely done away with restenosis after angioplasty, and improved procedures continue to be sought.

4. History of invasive and interventional cardiology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_invasive_and...

   Stent technology improved rapidly, and in 1989 the Palmaz-Schatz balloon-expandable intracoronary stent was developed. [24] [25] Initial results with the Palmaz-Schatz stents were excellent when compared to balloon angioplasty, with a significantly lower incidence of abrupt closure and peri-procedure heart attack. [26]

5. Interventional cardiology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventional_cardiology

   Coronary angiography and angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction (left: Right Coronary Artery [RCA] closed, right: successfully dilated) Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases .

6. Coronary catheterization - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_catheterization

   Stents, which are specially manufactured expandable stainless steel mesh tubes, mounted on a balloon catheter, are the most commonly used device beyond the balloon catheter. When the stent/balloon device is positioned within the stenosis, the balloon is inflated which, in turn, expands the stent and the artery.

7. Angioplasty - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angioplasty

   It is effective in modifying undilatable and uncrossable lesions, facilitating subsequent balloon angioplasty and stent deployment. Atherectomy is a valuable adjunctive therapy for patients with coronary artery disease, particularly those with severely calcified lesions where traditional balloon angioplasty and stenting may be insufficient. Its ...