Complications in PTCA

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

   PDF

2. Recognition of Complications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. Lesion Types Correlating with High Incidence of Complications after PTCA

      • D. Vaterrodt, S. Dacian, J. Dirschinger, W. Rudolph

      Pages 3-10

   3. Pathologist’s Findings after PTCA (The Mechanism of Angioplasty)

      • C. Düber

      Pages 11-15

   4. Digital Coronary Angiography: Relevance for Diagnosis and Invasive Treatment, Use of Quantitative Picture Interpretation, and Error Correction Modalities

      • E. Fleck, H. Oswald

      Pages 16-34

   5. Do Long-term Inflations Reduce the Occurrence of Acute Complications after Coronary Balloon Angioplasty?

      • W. Rutsch, H. Schmutzler

      Pages 35-38

   6. “High-risk” PTCA. Definition, Results, and Recommendations

      • Geoffrey O. Hartzler

      Pages 39-44

3. Complications in New Interventional Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

      PDF

   2. Diagnostic Implications of Percutaneous Atherectomy: Angioscopic, Histologic, and Cell Culture Study

      • A. v. Pölnitz, G. Bauriedel, P. C. Dartsch, I. Schinko, D. Backa, E. Betz et al.

      Pages 47-56

   3. High-Frequency Rotational Angioplasty

      • Raimund Erbel, M. Haude, S. Iversen, U. Nixdorff, H. Oelert, U. Dietz et al.

      Pages 57-68

   4. Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions: Results and Complications

      • C. W. Hamm, W. Bleifeld

      Pages 69-75

   5. Complications in Conventional and New Angioplasty Techniques

      • Martin Höher, V. Hombach, M. Kochs, W. Haerer, A. Schmidt, T. Eggeling

      Pages 76-94

4. Management of Complications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

      PDF

   2. Emergency CABG — Surgery after PTCA: Complications in 1420 Cases of Angioplasty, with Consideration of Coronary Anatomy, Management, and Outcome

      • E. Frantz, J. Krülls-Münch, H. Oswald, E. Fleck

      Pages 97-103

   3. Acute Coronary Occlusion after PTCA — Management by Redilatation, Perfusion-Catheters, and Stents

      • A. Buchwald, C. Unterberg, G. S. Werner, U. Tebbe, H. R. Figulla, V. Wiegand

      Pages 104-107

   4. Intracoronary Stents

      • Frits W. Bär, J. van Oppen, H. de Swart, V. van Ommen, P. Leenders, M. Havenith et al.

      Pages 108-113

   5. Surgery after Complications of PTCA: An Overview on Strategy, Techniques, and Results

      • J. Ennker, H. Warnecke, G. Reinicke, R. Hetzer

      Pages 114-122

5. Restenosis after Angioplasty

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

      PDF

   2. Restenosis following Coronary Angioplasty

      • K. J. Beatt, P. W. Serruys

      Pages 125-133

   3. Factors Correlating with Restenosis after PTCA

      • Hans J. Rupprecht, R. Brennecke, R. Erbel, J. Meyer

      Pages 134-141

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty is presently the widest used non-surgi­ cal method for the treatment of stenotic lesions in coronary artery disease. Continuous development of the procedure and equipment has made complex and multi-vessel-inter­ ventions possible and has led to other techniques of intravascular angioplasty. In reviewing current results, this volume pays particular attention to causes, incidence, circumstances, recognition, treatment and outcome of complications of PTCA; it also considers restenosis, which still occurs at an unsatisfactory high rate after primarily successful procedures. To deal with these topics, experts on PTCA met to discuss their experiences and insights into peculiar aspects of complications in PTCA. The discussion was subdivided into: Recognition of complications; Complications in new interventional techniques; Management of complications; and Restenosis after angioplasty. The question of whether angiographic and pathological characteristics of sclerotic lesions allow the identification of complication-prone lesions in advance is discussed in the first chapter. One paper deals with the state of the art of digital cardiac imaging, which enables the operator to have an early knowledge of and adequate reaction to possible complications occurring during angioplasty. Special attention is directed to the so-called "high-risk"-PTCA, detailing the clinical variables, in order to have better knowledge about patients with a higher probability of unsuccessful or complicated procedures.

• Dilatation
• PTCA
• Stent
• anatomy
• angiography
• artery
• cardiac imaging
• coronary artery disease
• coronary heart disease

• Klinik für Innere Medizin - Kardiologie, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin 65, Germany

  Eckart Fleck, Eckart Frantz

Policies and ethics