title: Advances in interventional cardiology: higher risk patients demand greater vigilance.
abstract: Specialized devices, such as stents, are being used with or replacing balloon angioplasty. About 25% of the 900,000 global angioplasties performed in 1995 included stenting. By the millennium, stenting will have overtaken all other therapies, including bypass graft surgery.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D015607:Stents