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In April 1978, Dr. Andreas Grüntzig, of University Hospital, Zurich, told a patient who had a tightly narrowed left anterior descending coronary artery that he did not have enough experience to cite an accurate success rate for balloon angioplasty of this artery before he performed the procedure. He said that the patient was only his eighth, and his first from the United States, to undergo this procedure. Panel A shows the angiogram from 1978. The left-hand image shows a lesion in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (arrow), the middle image shows the balloon inflation, and the right-hand image . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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