A multicenter clinical trial was initiated to test the potential safety and short-term efficacy of a percutaneous coronary application of laser balloon angioplasty, which has been shown ...experimentally to alleviate the common causes (dissection, recoil, thrombus) of suboptimal luminal results of conventional balloon angioplasty. Fifty-five patients, the majority (62%) of whom had relatively high risk lesions, were treated in 10 centers with a laser balloon that was identical in size (3 × 20 mm) to a balloon used for conventional balloon angioplasty performed on the same lesion immediately before laser balloon angioplasty. One or more neodymium: yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd: YAG) (1,060 nm) laser doses of 250 to 450 J were each delivered over a 20 s duration per exposure. Immediately and 1 day after laser balloon angioplasty no significant adverse effects on the arterial lumen were noted in any patient.
By computerized image analysis of cineangiograms initial conventional balloon angioplasty failed to achieve a minimal luminal diameter > 1.5 mm in 14 patients (25%), including 3 patients with acute closure. However, after subsequent laser balloon angioplasty, minimal luminal diameter exceeded this value in all patients including this subgroup. Overall, minimal luminal diameter increased from 1.74 ± 0.46 mm after conventional balloon angioplasty to 2.32 ± 0.31 mm after laser balloon angioplasty (p < 0.001) with no change found on 1 day and 1 month follow-up angiograms. Thus, laser balloon angioplaty is a safe, effective procedure for improving huminal dimensions after conventional balloon angioplasty.
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To examine the relationship between myocardial ischemia in patients with steal-prone coronary anatomy and the administration of isoflurane anesthesia, we reviewed coronary angiograms of 955 patients ...who had participated in a randomized trial of the use of one of four primary anesthetics for coronary artery bypass operations. Steal-prone anatomy was found in 31.8% of patients who had received enflurane; 40.0%, halothane; 32.6%, isoflurane; and 31.7%, sufentanil. Detected by ≥ 0.1 mV ST segment displacement, ischemia during anesthesia occurred in 290 (30.4%) of all patients with no difference in the incidence among the four primary anesthetics (27.5%-32.9%). Patients with steal-prone anatomy did not suffer more ischemia than patients who needed coronary artery bypass surgery but with other varieties of coronary anatomy. In patients with steal-prone coronay anatomy, the incidence of myocardial ischemia by primary anesthetic was 24.0% with enflurane, 34.4% with halothane, 32.1% with isofluvane, and 38.2% with sufentanil. Systolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg during anesthesia occurred in 416 (45.6%) patients and was twice as common during administration of volatile anesthetics than during that of sufentanil. Hypotension did not increase ischemia frequency in patients with steal-prone anatomy with use of any of the four primary anesthetics including isoflurane. Ischemia was temporally related to hypotension in only 9 patients (0.9%). In none of the 42 patients who had steal-prone anatomy and hypotension during isoflurane anesthesia was ischemia temporally related to hypotension. We conclude that myocardial ischemia is not more commonly associated with isoflurane anesthesia, even in patients with steal-prone coronary anatomy, than with any of the three other primary anesthetics evaluated. Our data do not support restrictions on use of isoflurane in patients with ischemic heart disease.
BOOKS ON CANADA Herlan, James J.; Reilly, Wayne G.; Kresl, Peter Karl ...
The American review of Canadian studies,
10/1/1976, 1976-10-00, 19761001, Volume:
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Book reviews Lichtenberger, Elisabeth; Subbakrishniah, A.; Grannatt, Milton H. ...
The Annals of Regional Science,
11/1977, Volume:
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