title: Adjunctive operative coronary artery balloon-catheter dilatation: review of Lenox Hill experience.
abstract: Operative transluminal coronary angioplasty (OTCA) has been used as an adjunct to coronary artery bypass surgery in 65 patients over a 56-month period beginning in May 1978. Experience has led us to use OTCA primarily in the left anterior descending coronary artery. The angioplasty catheter has undergone a number of modifications. Late restudy (8 to 56 months; mean, 24.1) data in 17 patients demonstrated that 15 of 19 angioplasty segments (78.9%) were patent.
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period