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Percutaneous coronary intervention
1 What does the term percutaneous coronary intervention mean? Andreas Gruentzig performed the first successful balloon angioplasty procedure in humans in 1977. Initial coronary interventions involving only balloon angioplasty were referred to as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). Since then,…