title: Guidelines for performance of transluminal angioplasty in the hospital.
abstract: The expanding use of balloon catheter dilatation of arterial lesions has demonstrated its effectiveness as a relatively simple therapeutic method to improve the initial patency of focal, proximally located atherosclerotic stenoses. It is recommended that the vascular surgeon assume a leadership role in establishing guidelines within each institution for the assessment and conduct of transluminal angioplasty. The careful selection of patients with an appropriate indication for the procedure is a preferred alternative to its improper and indiscriminate use.
mesh_terms: D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D004106:Dilatation; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000601:surgery; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*