Transcutaneous Puncture of an Undeflatable Coronary Angioplasty Balloon Catheter by Gregor Leibundgut, Christian Degen, Florian Riede

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Relation of Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life with Outcome after Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty by Suprakash Chaudhury, Kalpana Srivastava

“…Despite, increasing number of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) being performed, there is a paucity of Indian studies on the psychological effects of PTCA. …”
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Removal of an entrapped guidewire by excimer laser coronary angioplasty in patients with chronic total occlusion intervention by Jiannan Li, Shaodong Ye, Yijin Wang, Chaoxiang Liu, Hanjun Zhao

“…Here, we report the removal of an entrapped guidewire using excimer laser coronary angioplasty (ELCA) in a case of chronic total occlusion (CTO). …”
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Double Vessel Coronary Angioplasty in a Patient with Anomalous Single Coronary Artery Arising from the Right Cusp and Premature Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Varun Kumar, Shalini Gupta, Krishna Prasad

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Effect of Reperfusion on Time Domain Parameters of Heart Rate Variability by Sadia Mubarak, Bushra Riaz, Mehvish Ashfaq, Sidra Hamid, Amina Rasul, Mamoona Shafiq

“…Conclusion: Reperfusion after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty decreases heart rate variability within 24 hours after the procedure. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomographic Study of a Chronically Retained Coronary Guidewire by Natasha Corballis, Sreekumar Sulfi, Alisdair Ryding

“…This is a case of an urgent percutaneous coronary angioplasty in which a guidewire became entrapped behind a bare metal stent with subsequent fracture of the core filament, which could not be retrieved. …”
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Recurrent Syncope Associated with Lung Cancer by Dingguo Zhang, Liansheng Wang, Zhijian Yang

“…Exercise EKG and coronary angioplasty results confirmed the existence of serious coronary heart disease. …”
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Acute Thrombotic Occlusion of Right Coronary and Left Circumflex Coronary Arteries in a Patient with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Successful Stent Implantation by Serdar Biceroglu, Muge Ildizli Demirbas, Mustafa Karaca, Murat Yalcin, Hasan Yilmaz

“…In the literature, this is the first case with antiphospholipid syndrome in which primary coronary angioplasty with stent implantation was successfully performed for two coronary arteries with acute thrombotic occlusion.…”
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Multiple Culprit Coronary Artery Thrombosis in a Patient with Coronary Ectasia by Bruno da Silva Matte, Gustavo Neves de Araujo, Felipe Homem Valle, Ana Maria Rocha Krepsky

“…The patient had been previously submitted to percutaneous coronary angioplasty with bare metal stent implantation in both culprit vessels. …”
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Extremely Unusual Coronary Involvement in Cardiac Sarcoidosis by Amanpreet Singh Wasir, Manish Bansal, Anand Jaiswal, Surbhi Pande, Abha Thakur, Haimanti Sarin, Kartikeya Bhargava

“…He was started on steroids and appropriate heart failure medications and underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with stent to RCA. Later, he presented with hemodynamically stable ventricular tachycardia and received an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.…”
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An Algorithm to Analyze Cost Heterogeneity using Counterfactual Scenarios in Endovascular versus Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Predicting Costs for Subsequent Patients by Christopher A. Jones, Peter W. Callas, Robert W. Everett, Richard A. Galbraith, Richie Spitsberg, Jeffrey J. Petrozzino, Michael J. DeSarno, Andrew C. Stanley

“…Predictors of UQC for EVAR were: presence of iliac aneurysm(s), coronary artery bypass graft surgery or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty within the past 5 years, ejection fraction ≤30%, absence of beta blockers, creatinine ≥1.5mg/dL, and current use of tobacco (area under ROC = 0.784). …”
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: A Rare Manifestation of Alport Syndrome by Amornpol Anuwatworn, Prince Sethi, Kelly Steffen, Orvar Jonsson, Marian Petrasko

“…Subsequent coronary angiography revealed localized dissection of the left circumflex artery. Percutaneous coronary angioplasty was performed and her symptoms improved. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Acute Myocardial Ischaemia Based on Entropy–Complexity Plane by Esteban R. Valverde, Victoria Vampa, Osvaldo A. Rosso, Pedro D. Arini

“…Then, a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedure (PTCA), which encompassed the occlusion/reperfusion period, was performed. …”
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Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Atherosclerotic Coronary Lesion with Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery by Junji Matsuda, Takashi Ikenouchi, Giichi Nitta, Shunichi Kato, Kazuya Murata, Miki Kanoh, Yukihiro Inamura, Nobutaka Kato, Tomomasa Takamiya, Ken Negi, Akira Sato, Tsunehiro Yamato, Yutaka Matsumura, Junichi Nitta

“…This case highlights the fact that coronary artery anomalies can cause angina pectoris via both atherosclerotic and nonatherosclerotic effects, and successful revascularization was achieved noninvasively via percutaneous coronary angioplasty.…”
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Laser Vaporization of Intracoronary Thrombus and Identifying Plaque Morphology in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction as Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography by Yuki Yamanaka, Yoshihisa Shimada, Daisuke Tonomura, Kazunori Terashita, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kentaro Yano, Satoshi Nishiura, Masataka Yoshida, Takao Tsuchida, Hitoshi Fukumoto

“…We evaluated the thrombus-vaporizing effect of excimer laser coronary angioplasty (ELCA) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) by optical coherence tomography (OCT). …”
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The Association between Type-2 Diabetes Duration and Major Adverse Cardiac Events after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Botey Katamu Benjamin, Chunguang Qiu, Zhanying Han, Wenjie Lu, Guoju Sun, Xiaofei Qin, Xule Wang, Xi Wang, Ran Li, Liang Pan

“…A total of 302 cases of diabetic patients undergoing an elective PCI with drug-eluting stent (DES) deployment and or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) using a drug-coated balloon (DCB) were prospectively studied. …”
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