Transluminal laser angioplasty

Wlodzimierz Otto

doi:10.1117/12.236831

27 March 1996 Transluminal laser angioplasty

Wlodzimierz Otto

Proceedings Volume 2781, Lasers in Medicine; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.236831
Event: Lasers in Medicine, 1995, Warsaw-Zegrze, Poland

Abstract

Twenty seven patients with femoral artery occlusion were treated by transluminal Nd:YAG laser angioplasty, in 16 patients the procedure was combined with intraarterial infusion of rTPA (actilyse-Boehringer Ing). In 5 out of 11 patients from the initial group recanalization was not successful. In 16 patients from the rTPA group satisfactory immediate results were achieved in all cases. In long time observations ranging from 9 to 24 months all patients remained free from symptoms, although in 4 of them angiography and Doppler ultrasound examination reveal no flow in the femoral artery. In the remaining 12 patients (75%), the previously occluded artery is patent. No complications of laser angioplasty nor intraarterial infusion of rTPA were noted in this series.

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Wlodzimierz Otto "Transluminal laser angioplasty", Proc. SPIE 2781, Lasers in Medicine, (27 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.236831

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