Angioplasty - Var. Techniques, Challs. in Trtmt. of Congen., Acq., Vasc. Stenoses

Most interventional physicians believe that Andrea Gruentzig, who performed the first successful coronary angioplasty in 1977 in Zurich, Switzerland, began the era of less invasive intervention performed via the transcatheter route. At that time, in his first case, utilizing a kitchen-built catheter, he successfully performed dilation of an 80% lesion of a 3mm section of the left anterior descending artery.