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Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions: Results and Complications

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Complications in PTCA

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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was originally limited by Grüntzig to proximal isolated stenoses [3]. Based on growing experience of the operators and considerable improvement of the equipment the indication of PTCA has been extended to patients with double- or triple-vessel disease. Currently, several multi-center studies are being carried out to investigate the role of PTCA in multivessel disease [8]. One of the major preliminary results of the German multi-center trial (GABI) is that a major preclusion of PTCA in these patients is an occluded vessel requiring revascularization [6].

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  1. Medical Clinic, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    PD Dr. C. W. Hamm & W. Bleifeld

  2. II. Medizinische Klinik Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 2000, Hamburg 20, Germany

    PD Dr. C. W. Hamm

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  1. Klinik für Innere Medizin - Kardiologie, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 1000, Berlin 65, Germany

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Hamm, C.W., Bleifeld, W. (1991). Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions: Results and Complications. In: Fleck, E., Frantz, E. (eds) Complications in PTCA. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85394-4_8

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