Interventional Cardiology and Angiology

Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Additional aspects to balloon angioplasty.- Long wire technique for coronary angioplasty the Frankfurt experience.- Advances in x-ray equipment digital subtraction angiography with on-line quantification.- Myocardial release of lactate, hypoxanthine, and urate during and following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Potential mechanism for the generation of free radicals.- Adenosine production during balloon-induced ischemia.- Can one predict reversibility of regional ventricular dysfunction?.- Current assessment of balloon valvuloplasty.- Quantitative and qualitative morphological changes during intraoperative balloon valvuloplasty.- What can we learn from classical operative techniques for valvular balloon dilatation?.- Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of aortic stenosis in 110 consecutive patients.- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults: report of 78 consecutive patients.- Experience with mitral valvuloplasty.- Assessment of left ventricular function during aortic balloon valvuloplasty by transesophageal echocardiography.- New techniques for revascularization.- Percutaneous transluminal atherectomy of the peripheral and coronary arteries.- Histological findings from atherectomy specimens.- Cell culture of human atheromatous plaque material.- Low-speed rotational angioplasty clinical results in 53 patients with chronic occlusions.- Laser angioplasty: 1988.- Intraoperative coronary laser angioplasty first clinical experiences with a new method.- Laser angioplasty of iliac and femoropopliteal obstructive lesions.- Radiofrequency coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease a new method for treatment of coronary artery stenoses.- Angioscopy in the evaluation of interventional cardiovascular procedures.- Progress in intravascular real-time cross-sectional ultrasonic imaging at the Thoraxcenter.- Current status of intracoronary stents.- Interventional techniques for arrhythmia control.- Cardiac tachyarrhythmias: alternatives to medical treatment.- Catheter ablation: the state of the art.- Preoperative and intraoperative mapping in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia.- Surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia.- Interventional cardiology today.