[Possibilities of catheter therapy in vascular stenosis, vascular abnormalities, tumors and hemorrhages. Synopsis of an interdisciplinary colloquium].
Modern interventional catheter-technics allow amelioration of arterial blood flow by dilatation of narrowed or recanalization of closed coronary and peripheral arteries. Patients with chronic or unstable angina pectoris not responding to therapy can thus be treated successfully by percutaneous dilatation (PTCA). In peripheral occlusive disease balloon catheterization sometimes in combination with local fibrinolysis and thrombectomy may prevent amputation. On the other hand, cerebral malformations of arteries, aneurysms and tumors can be eliminated by artificial occlusion. Therapeutic embolization is also increasingly used in acute or recurrent haemorrhage in lungs, spleen and gastrointestinal tract. It may also be used as palliating therapy in malignancies. Medical indications and limitations of the various catheter techniques in cardiology, angiology, neurology and interventional radiology are discussed.
Abteilungen für Kardiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
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D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000628:therapy; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans
Möglichkeiten der Kathetertherapie bei Gefässstenosen, Gefässmissbildungen, Tumoren und Blutungen. Zusammenfassung eines interdisziplinären Kolloquiums.