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AngioSculpt "EX" PTCA Scoring Balloon Catheter by AngioScore, Inc.: Recall - Risk of Catheter Separation by FDA : The AngioSculpt EX Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) catheters may become separated...: The AngioSculpt PTCA Scoring Balloon Catheter is used to dilate narrowed coronary arteries (stenosis...
Simplified “Life cycle” of PTCA by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor Life cycle of PTCA : Let us hope it do not become extinct ! Does PTCA  , a great Innovation for mankind,  is facing a threat of  extinction ? It seems so . . . the stents  are losing its shine...
Is plain balloon angiopasty(POBA) a dead concept ? If so who killed it ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor When  PTCA was introduced  by Gruntzig  in 1977 the whole world was awestruck. All he did was . . . to dilate a coronary stenosis with a balloon. No scaffolding  was ever thought off at that time...
Use of transluminal c ... by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven   Use of transluminal coronary angioplasty, or PTCA, a procedure for opening blocked arteries in patients with coronary artery disease, is now used nearly three times more often than the older...
Landmark articles : New Orleans and the “ASD” connection by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor It was those great  years  1974 -1976.  Even before the concept of  PTCA was born, few  committed cardiologists  of New  Orleans were on a mission. Closing the ASD in cath lab. They  achieved it successfully...
Why Gruentzig is not considered yet for Nobel prize in Medicine ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor   with greatly  improved knowledge base, evidence ,  hardware,  techniques and expertise . PTCA  is  an...  seems to think otherwise . What could  be the reasons ? PTCA is  simply an extension of an old invention...
Check out this report of the successful search for and retrieval of a catheter embolus lost in the ascending aorta during PTCA whose localization was complicated because it was radiolucent.
Do not undermine the Importance of “Poster presentations” in scientific conferences ! by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor scientific sessions ,Florida 1975     .  .  .  the    revolutionary  concept  of  PTCA   would still be...
Why should a stent elute drug ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor S tents are mechanical  devices like  a  spring ,  used to  keep an artery open after a PTCA or PCI.                                 Bare metal stents(BMS) were found to have restenois rate...
Health Headlines - January 29 by Meredy Registered NurseHealth Maven Cordis Recalls Balloon Catheters A problem that could cause injury or death has prompted Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis to recall about 132,000 Dura Star RX and Fire Star RX PTCA balloon catheters...

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I am a 36 years old from India who recently was detected to have acute coronary syndrome with troponin T up to 0.98 ng and underwent PTCA and drug eluting stent placement to the left circumflex artery which was found to have 100% stenosis in the angiogram(single vessel disease in the LCx). Now that after 35 days the PTCA...crap

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with angioplasty (PTCA) half as often as patients without RA. This could be explained by other studies...crap