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7788626

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-7-25
pubmed:abstractText
This review gives a short overview of the results of 15 years of experimental and clinical work on laser angioplasty. Experimentally, photothermal and photomechanical ablation of plaque could be demonstrated. However, laser angioplasty did not cause reduction of platelet adhesion and intimal hyperplasia. Clinically, the technique of laser angioplasty was continuously improved until the initial recanalization rates and long-term patency rates in femoropopliteal artery occlusions were the same as the success rates of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). This was proven by various randomized studies. Currently, laser angioplasty cannot be proposed as a routine procedure because it is an expensive technology. However, laser recanalization and debulking of total occlusions should be further developed, especially in combination with endoluminal graft placement.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0174-1551
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Laser angioplasty of peripheral arteries: an epilogue?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Angiography and Interventional Radiology, University Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review