2020
DOI: 10.2478/inmed-2020-0125
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From Stenosis to Restenosis - The New Coronary Artery Disease Continuum in the PCI Era

Abstract: Mortality rates from acute myocardial infarctions have been declining in the past 4 decades since percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) became a valid therapeutical option. PCI is a non-surgical revascularization procedure in which blood flow in an occluded or narrowed epicardial coronary artery is re-established by inflating an angioplasty balloon in order to remove the blockage, followed by the insertion of a stent in order to maintain the patency of the artery. Since the late ‘70s when the first bare m… Show more

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