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percutaneous coronary intervention |
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intervention /in·ter·ven·tion/ (-ven´shun) 1. the act or fact of interfering so as to modify. 2. any measure whose purpose is to improve health or alter the course of disease. crisis intervention 1. an immediate, short-term, psychotherapeutic approach, the goal of which is to help resolve a personal crisis within the individual's immediate environment. 2. the procedures involved in responding to an emergency. percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, excimer laser angioplasty, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices. percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, angioplasty using the excimer laser, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Tokyo, Japan, Dec 19, 2005 - (JCN) - Japan Lifeline began marketing OTTIMO ROSSO, its new balloon catheter for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedure, on December 19. Survival rates for coronary bypass, intensive care unit and coronary angioplasty patients at Lancaster Hospital were in top 20 percent, the report said. This inexpensive treatment, which has minimal side effects, should be considered as adjunctive therapy for patients undergoing coronary angioplasty," say Guido Schnyder and colleagues at the University of California at San Diego Medical Center and elsewhere. |
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