History of myocardial revascularization - the journey to the first percutaneous coronary angioplasty and beyond Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first PTCA
2017
Abstract
History of the revascularization of the myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease is remarkable, its individual parts were over the years repeatedly mentioned in lectures at various congresses and desribed by the direct participants in professional journals. Most of the new procedures we have adopted over time, and therefore I considered it appropriate to summarize it here, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the execution of the first coronary angioplasty and, hence, the creation of the subspeciality of Interventional Cardiology.