Interventional Cardiology and Angiology

• Prevention of Restenosis
  • Problems
  • Molecular basics
  • Drugs investigated for restenosis prevention
    • The relative risk ratio of drugs investigated vs a control group in the prevention of restenosis
  • The four phases of restenosis
  • Angiotensin II receptor blockade
  • Mercator and Marcator Study, QUIET Trial, Trapidil, Probucol
  • Prevention of Atherosclerosis In Coronary Arteries (PAIC)
  • The Candesartan Cilexetil In-Stent Restenosis Prevention Trial (C A I R P)
  • Alternative strategies
    • Local drug delivery (stent coating)
    • Stent Coating, local drug delivery, surface structure of stents
• Relation between arteriosclerosis in coronary and renal arteries
  • Objectives
• Elective Stenting of Carotid Artery Stenosis in Patients with Severe Coronary Artery Disease
  • Objectives
  • Illustration 1
  • Illustration 2
• Differentiation and Proliferation of smooth muscle cells
  • New approaches towards an improved therapy of atherosclerosis and restenosis
• Automated detection of endovascular vessel surface
  • Intracoronary ultrasound image sequences (ICUS) by using a new area orientated contour detetction for 3-D visualization
  • Automatical detection of lumen, plaque and stent cross sectional area with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to determine the in-stent restenosis
    • 3D-Reconstraction (A)
    • 3D-Reconstraction (B)
• OSTIAL RENAL ARTERY STENT PLACEMENT FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS
  • in patients with coronary artery disease
  • Illustration
• Unstable Angina
  • An Evaluation of Equivalence of Conservative Versus Early Interventional Revascularization for Unstable Angina
  • SPREE

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