Dotter and Judkins (1) first proposed the concept of transluminal angioplasty—enlargement
of the lumen of a stenotic vessel by a catheter technique in 1964. They advanced a spring …

It is difficult to think of balloon angioplasty as a mature technique with which new devices
must now be compared. It seems as if it were only yesterday that Gruentzig demonstrated a …

We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the first use of coronary balloon angioplasty in
humans. This nonsurgical treatment of obstructive coronary atherosclerosis has proved …

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty--PTCA--will forever be linked with A.
Gruentzig's name. Building on the work of Charles Dotter and Malvin Judkins be developped …

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) was introduced by the late Charles Dotter in
1964. l Twenty years of clinical experience and technical innovation have accumulated …

Perutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been one of the most rapidly
developing therapies in cardiology since it was first performed by Gruentzig in 19T [1] …

The 1st percutaneous transluminal angioplasty marked a new era in the treatment of
peripheral atherosclerotic lesions. The early techniques used in peripheral percutaneous …

In 1974, at the Medical Policlinic of the University of Zürich, German-born physician-scientist
Andreas Grüntzig (1939–1985) for the first time applied a balloon-tipped catheter to re-open …

The year 1963 marked one of the greatest achievements in cardiovascular medicine when
Dr. Charles Dotter recanalized an occluded right common iliac artery percutaneously by …