title: [Coronary angioplasty in unstable angina. Immediate and short-term results].
abstract: We report the results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 67 consecutive patients with unstable angina. Twenty patients had new onset (less than 2 months) angina, 33 patients had crescendo angina and 14 had early postinfarction angina. Fifty-one patients had one-vessel disease, 12 patients had two-vessel disease and two patients had three-vessel disease; two patients had a stenosis of a venous graft. In cases with multivessel disease, we performed only the dilatation of the ischaemia-related vessel identified by morphologic features of coronary lesion and electrocardiographic changes during chest pain. The procedure was successful in 54 cases (80.6%). Seven patients (10.4%) had major complications. Emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery was performed in 6 cases (8.9%) because of occlusion of the left anterior descending artery; despite emergency operation one patient died and two patients sustained a myocardial infarction. One patient had occlusion of the right coronary artery and inferior myocardial infarction. In all patients in whom angioplasty was successful unstable angina disappeared. At 6 months follow-up there were no infarctions or deaths but 14 of 42 patients (33%) had recurrent angina. Restenosis occurred in 16 of 33 patients (48%) who had repeat coronary angiography. Four patients with recurrence of unstable angina had repeat angioplasty; it was successful in 3 cases. One patient died of refractory cardiac arrest. The mortality rate of 71 procedures performed in 67 patients was 2.8% (2/71) and the overall myocardial infarction rate was 4.2% (3/71).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Padova, Servizio di Emodinamica.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramondo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Corbara
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Isabella
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maddalena
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bellotto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Budano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mazzucco
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chioin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000628:therapy*; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000628:therapy*; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: L'angioplastica coronarica nell'angina instabile. Risultati immediati e a breve termine.