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About 2.2 million percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) were performed worldwide in 2004 (Mead D: personal communication). Success rates of more than 97%, mortality rates of less than 0.5%, and rates of emergency bypass surgery of less than 0.5% can be anticipated with elective procedures. Major obstacles initially confronting the field — including the inability to reach complex or tortuous lesions, to cross lesions, and to dilate lesions, as well as bifurcation disease, occlusive dissection, and abrupt closure — have largely been overcome. Restenosis has been markedly reduced with the advent of drug-eluting stents.¹

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From the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami.

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