Angioplasty, Stents, Coronary Artery Disease -- Angioplasty.Org

Welcome to the Web's most extensive independent source of information on angioplasty for patients and professionals -- now celebrating our 10th year online. Our mission: provide substantive support; present the latest news on treatments and technologies; be a forum for discussion of controversial issues in medical innovation.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. RON WAKSMAN: Our IVUS Center features a discussion about an important new study, showing that IVUS guidance can improve results with drug-eluting stents, including significantly lower rates of stent thrombosis.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. MAURICIO COHEN: In its ongoing series of interviews with practitioners of the radial approach to catheterization and interventions, Angioplasty.Org discusses how and why Dr. Cohen decided to specialize in this vascular access technique.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. HARVEY HECHT: The latest in our "Advances in Imaging" series is an extensive discussion with one of the foremost CTA imaging experts, ranging from reimbursement issues to a vision of the new paradigm for diagnosiing coronary disease.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. L. NELSON "NICK" HOPKINS: In this 3-part interview, part of our "Advances in Imaging" series, we discuss the diagnosis and treatment of carotid artery disease and stroke with a pioneering neurosurgeon and interventionist.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. RANDALL W. MOREADITH: We interview the principal investigator for the AWARE Trial (Angiogenesis in Women With Angina Pectoris Who Are Not Candidates for Revascularization) -- the first Phase 3 study of its kind.

News, features and expert interviews about safety, efficacy and new directions in the development of drug-coated stents.

ACC COURAGE trial study results:
ANSWERS TO TOP 10 QUESTIONS ABOUT DRUG THERAPY VS. ANGIOPLASTY

Patient Advisory: Stent Thrombosis
What patients need to know about drug-elutings stent and late stent thrombosis

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EMERGENCY ANGIOPLASTY: The "gold standard" for treating and stopping heart attacks.

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" The 1st Angioplasty"

ANGIOPLASTY AT 30: 2007 marks the 30th anniversary of coronary angioplasty. In 1977 in Zurich, Switzerland, a young physician named Andreas Gruentzig inserted a catheter into a patient's coronary artery and inflated a tiny balloon, successfully opening a blockage and restoring blood flow to a human heart. Today over two million coronary angioplasties (PTCAs) are performed worldwide each year, making it more common than bypass surgery

In the past decade, stents, atherectomy devices, radiation catheters and other innovations have ushered in a new era in interventional medicine. (Click here to view videos, interviews, photos and other primary source materials in our History Center.)

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