[Early results of percutaneous transluminal coronary vessel dilatation in single vessel disease. Comparison with drug treated or surgically treated patients, retrospective for dilatation suited patients].
The shortterm results (mean follow-up 0.9 years) in 61 patients with single vessel disease (1-VD) who had undergone percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) were compared with those in 33 patients with 1-VD treated medically and in 36 patients with 1-VD treated by bypass surgery. All medically and surgically treated patients had coronary artery stenoses which were classified in a retrospective analysis as suitable for PTCA. Initially there were no significant differences between the three groups with respect to functional impairment (NYHA class), incidence of prior myocardial infarction, left ventricular ejection fraction and localization of the coronary stenoses. Comparison of follow-up results at the end of the first year showed (1) that the NYHA class was reduced to a similar extent both in patients treated surgically and in those treated by PTCA, (2) that the NYHA class in the medically treated group was significantly greater than in the other two groups, and (3), that there was no difference among the three groups with respect to infarct and mortality rate.
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D004106:Dilatation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies
Frühresultate der perkutanen transluminalen Koronargefässdilatation bei Ein-Gefäss-Erkrankung. Vergleich mit medikamentös oder chirurgisch behandelten, retrospektiv für Dilatation geeigneten Patienten.