Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: brief review of first 1,500 cases in the NHLBI registry.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty has proved to be a relatively safe and efficacious interventional technique in selected cases of atherosclerotic coronary disease. While long-term results remain to be determined by randomized controlled study, the data from the first 1,500 cases seem comparable to those for coronary artery bypass.
D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012042:Registries; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States