| Coronary interventions approaching the year 2000. | |
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PMID: 10363481 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Interventional cardiology is only 22 years old, but its successes at the end of this century stand heavily on the shoulders of innovative pioneers who labored earlier in the century. Balloon angioplasty gradually developed and eventually achieved great success in treating America's greatest health risk, coronary artery disease, through the 1980s. Both mortality benefit and symptom improvement have been demonstrated for coronary angioplasty, making it one of the most frequently performed procedures in the world today. In an effort to overcome acute complications and late restenosis, atherectomy devices and stents became useful tools over the past decade. As the generation of baby boomers begins to swell the ranks of the middle aged and elderly in the early 21st century, it is with great hope that molecular biology and the continued development of the technology of interventional cardiology will allow even greater successes in decreasing death and disability from ischemic heart disease. |
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Authors:
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J E McLachlan; P R Stafford; F M Sheridan |
Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Review |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society Volume: 151 ISSN: 0024-6921 ISO Abbreviation: J La State Med Soc Publication Date: 1999 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1999-06-29 Completed Date: 1999-06-29 Revised Date: 2005-11-16 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7505618 Medline TA: J La State Med Soc Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 265-71 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Overton Brooks Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. |
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Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary
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trends* Atherectomy, Coronary / trends* Coronary Disease / therapy Forecasting* Humans Patient Selection Recurrence Stents |
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