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      Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Patients with Severely Depressed Left Ventricular Function

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          Among nearly 2,000 consecutive percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) patients, 42 patients (36 male, 6 female; mean age 60 ± 11 years) with mainly unstable angina had ejection fractions of < 35% (mean 30 ± 5%). All patients had previous myocardial infarctions; 31 (= 74%) had multivessel disease. Successful procedure was achieved in 35 of the 42 (= 83%) patients, 31 of 35 (= 89%) stenoses could be successfully dilated and 9 of 15 (= 60%) occlusions reopened. In-hospital mortality was 2.4%. Follow-up angiography in 22 of the 35 patients who had been successfully treated showed significant improvement of ejection fraction from 29 ± 5 to 36 ± 7%. At clinical follow-up 19 ± 14 months (2-53 months) after the procedure, nearly all surviving patients were in anginal class I or II, 5 had died from cardiac and 1 from noncardiac causes. Thus, PTCA in patients with severely depressed left ventricular function shows acceptable acute results; attenuation of ventricular dysfunction and continued symptomatic improvement can be achieved. However, late outcome is significantly worse than in patients with normal ventricular function.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1993
          1993
          18 November 2008
          : 83
          : 5-6
          : 358-366
          Affiliations
          Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, FRG
          Article
          175992 Cardiology 1993;83:358–366
          10.1159/000175992
          8111769
          07a52739-9d64-4c99-8cf6-e44f0218bafa
          © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 16 September 1993
          : 23 September 1993
          Page count
          Pages: 9
          Categories
          Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty,Left ventricular dysfunction

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