title: [Long-term results after coronary dilatation].
abstract: The angiographic long-term success of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is 80% for all patients with attempted PTCA, and 90% for all patients with acutely successful intervention. This long-term success rate results from todays acute success rate of more than 90%, even though an increasing number of more and more complex stenoses have been dilated during recent years, from a rate of restenosis of 20-30% and a success-rate exceeding 90% in patients who undergo redilatation due to a restenosis. The long-term clinical course of successfully dilated patients is considerably influenced by the progression of the underlying coronary heart disease, with a development of new hemodynamically significant stenoses in some 5% of the patients per year. A large percentage of these patients undergo successful redilatation so that aortocoronary bypass surgery can again be avoided in the majority of these cases. In a minority--mostly patients with multivessel disease - aortocoronary bypass surgery can at least be postponed. Successful PTCA results in a long-term improvement of cardiac symptoms and vocational status, perhaps even in a reduction of the incidence of myocardial infarction of cardiac death. Results on latter, derived from retrospective studies, have to be confirmed by prospective trials.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt am Main.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kadel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vallbracht
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaltenbach
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kober
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Langzeitergebnisse nach Koronardilatation.