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To the Editor: Coronary angiography performed in a 38-year-old man on September 14, 1977, showed a high-grade but discrete stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery just before the first large diagonal branch (Figure 1A).¹ The remainder of the coronary arteries and the left ventricle were normal.

View larger version (62K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Coronary Angiograms Obtained in a Patient before Coronary Angioplasty, in 1977 (Panel A), and in 2000 (Panel B).

 
I told the patient that Dr. Andreas Gruentzig would offer him an alternative to bypass surgery. The alternative was coronary angioplasty. Gruentzig candidly explained the results that had been obtained in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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