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A metal-tipped laser fibre was used during percutaneous angioplasty of femoral/popliteal or iliac artery occlusions in 56 patients. Primary success was achieved in 50 (89%) of these total occlusions, providing a channel for subsequent balloon dilatation. Before the procedure, 18 lesions had been judged untreatable by conventional angioplasty and four of the six failures were in these. Complications directly attributable to the laser probe were one case of vessel perforation and two cases of entry into vessel walls; these had no sequelae. Other acute complications were a distal thrombosis in a non-heparinised patient, requiring local streptokinase treatment, and two reocclusions and one transient peripheral embolic episode in the first 24 hours. The laser probe technique has potential for increasing the proportion of patients suitable for angioplasty.
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T J Ryan
February 1990,
Radiology,
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J K Guben, and
T J Ryan
October 1991,
Radiology,
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A J Greenfield, and
J K Guben, and
T J Ryan
January 1988,
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T J Ryan
October 1986,
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D C Cumberland, and
T A Sanborn, and
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D J Moore, and
C L Welsh, and
A J Greenfield, and
J K Guben, and
T J Ryan
June 1988,
Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie,
D C Cumberland, and
T A Sanborn, and
D I Tayler, and
D J Moore, and
C L Welsh, and
A J Greenfield, and
J K Guben, and
T J Ryan
June 1989,
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D C Cumberland, and
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A J Greenfield, and
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T J Ryan
November 1991,
Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR,
D C Cumberland, and
T A Sanborn, and
D I Tayler, and
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C L Welsh, and
A J Greenfield, and
J K Guben, and
T J Ryan
September 1989,
Lancet (London, England),
D C Cumberland, and
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D J Moore, and
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T J Ryan
August 1987,
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D C Cumberland, and
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A J Greenfield, and
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T J Ryan
January 1987,
Journal of vascular surgery,
