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New Technology Clears Clogged Arteries
New Technology Clears Clogged Arteries -- Posted by Gumbo on 11-05-04 17:51
New Technology Clears Clogged Arteries
10/14/2004
THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- A new technique that uses infrared
light and radio frequency energy to clear blocked arteries may reduce the
number of patients who need bypass surgery, says a Dutch study in the
October issue of the journal Cardiovascular Interventions.
The study found this guide wire system can navigate blocked coronary
arteries, burn through dense scar tissue and reestablish blood flow through
severely obstructed arteries.
The technique was used on 27 people complex blockages that had blocked
standard guide wires. The blockages averaged 22 millimeters in length and
were an average of two years old.
"These were long lesions, they were difficult lesions, and all of them had
already been unsuccessfully attempted by conventional means," researcher Dr.
Angela Hoye, a clinical fellow in interventional cardiology at Thoraxcenter
in Rotterdam, said in a prepared statement.
This new guide wire, part of the Safe-Cross system, successfully crossed
these obstructions in 52 percent of the patients, with no major
complications.
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