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2976693

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
We report the results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 67 consecutive patients with unstable angina. Twenty patients had new onset (less than 2 months) angina, 33 patients had crescendo angina and 14 had early postinfarction angina. Fifty-one patients had one-vessel disease, 12 patients had two-vessel disease and two patients had three-vessel disease; two patients had a stenosis of a venous graft. In cases with multivessel disease, we performed only the dilatation of the ischaemia-related vessel identified by morphologic features of coronary lesion and electrocardiographic changes during chest pain. The procedure was successful in 54 cases (80.6%). Seven patients (10.4%) had major complications. Emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery was performed in 6 cases (8.9%) because of occlusion of the left anterior descending artery; despite emergency operation one patient died and two patients sustained a myocardial infarction. One patient had occlusion of the right coronary artery and inferior myocardial infarction. In all patients in whom angioplasty was successful unstable angina disappeared. At 6 months follow-up there were no infarctions or deaths but 14 of 42 patients (33%) had recurrent angina. Restenosis occurred in 16 of 33 patients (48%) who had repeat coronary angiography. Four patients with recurrence of unstable angina had repeat angioplasty; it was successful in 3 cases. One patient died of refractory cardiac arrest. The mortality rate of 71 procedures performed in 67 patients was 2.8% (2/71) and the overall myocardial infarction rate was 4.2% (3/71).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0046-5968
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
731-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
[Coronary angioplasty in unstable angina. Immediate and short-term results].
pubmed:affiliation
Università degli Studi di Padova, Servizio di Emodinamica.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract