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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

"Percutaneous Coronary Intervention" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A family of percutaneous techniques that are used to manage CORONARY OCCLUSION, including standard balloon angioplasty (PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY), the placement of intracoronary STENTS, and atheroablative technologies (e.g., ATHERECTOMY; ENDARTERECTOMY; THROMBECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL LASER ANGIOPLASTY). PTCA was the dominant form of PCI, before the widespread use of stenting.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Percutaneous Coronary Intervention" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Percutaneous Coronary Intervention" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 183 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2020
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