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Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

The most important advantage of laser angioplasty or excimer laser angioplasty, is that you need only a standard guidwire, 0.014 inch standard guide wire, unlike the other atherectomy devices which require a bulkier guidewire. Diagrammatic representation of laser angioplasty or atherectomy. One is in-stent restenosis.

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Around 10% of Deaths from Coronary Stenting, Balloon Angioplasty are Preventable

DAIC

While PCI, which includes both angioplasty and stenting, is one of the most common operations in the world, it does carry a small (about 1-2%) but significant risk of death. in total, angioplasty and stenting was deemed to be of low value and potentially avoidable nearly one third of the time.

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Injectable Angioplasty Balloon Catheter Transforms Peripheral Procedures, Users Report Reduced Equipment and Contrast Needs

DAIC

(Photo: Business Wire milla1cf Thu, 01/18/2024 - 14:05 January 18, 2024 — Summa Therapeutics, LLC announced that the first-in-man injectable angioplasty procedures for patients with below-knee peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were performed successfully using its Finesse Injectable balloon catheter platform. most due to circulation issues.

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Drug-Eluting Resorbable Scaffold versus Angioplasty for Infrapopliteal Artery Disease

The New England Journal of Medicine

In a trial involving patients with infrapopliteal artery disease, the use of a drug-eluting resorbable scaffold was superior to angioplasty in reducing reintervention and maintaining patency at 1 year.

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Comparison of IVUS-Guided vs. Angiography-Guided Angioplasty for the Outcomes of Drug-Coated Balloon in the Treatment of Femoropopliteal Artery Disease

American College of Cardiology

The goal of the IVUS-DCB trial was to evaluate intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided drug-coated balloon angioplasty compared with angiography-guided drug-coated balloon angioplasty among patients with femoropopliteal artery disease.

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PO-06-131 INTRAMURAL RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION THROUGH A VENOUS ANGIOPLASTY WIRE WITH IRRIGATION IN AN ANIMAL MODEL

HeartRhythm

Intramural vein mapping via angioplasty wire can localize such foci, but RFA delivery via angioplasty wire is limited. The most common cause of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) failure is inability to reach intramural foci.

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Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis

Science Daily - Heart Disease

For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary arteries, according to a new large study.