Hot-Tip Laser Angioplasty: A Review of the Texas Heart Institute Experience
AUTOR(ES)
Leachman, D. Richard
RESUMO
At the Texas Heart Institute, from October 1986 to October 1988, laser thermal angioplasty was used in conjunction with balloon angioplasty for treatment of 201 atherosclerotic vascular lesions in 162 patients. All patients had significant symptoms or impending limb loss. Most of the occlusions (148) were located in the superficial femoral artery; the clinical success rate in those cases was 80%. Similar success rates were noted in 25 iliac occlusions (77%) and 16 popliteal occlusions (88%). A small number of tibial vessels were also reopened successfully.
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