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Reported percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty using a balloon-catheter system and described the procedure and observed outcomes in the paper’s treated patients.
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The record is the exact 1979 New England Journal of Medicine report and its studied patients. Peripheral angioplasty antecedents, the first individual procedure, later trials, stents and population-level outcome claims remain separate.
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Andreas R. Grüntzig; Åke Senning; Walter E. Siegenthaler
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Grüntzig, Senning and Siegenthaler: percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
Reported percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty using a balloon-catheter system and described the procedure and observed outcomes in the paper’s treated patients.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1979 New England Journal of Medicine report and its studied patients. Peripheral angioplasty antecedents, the first individual procedure, later trials, stents and population-level outcome claims remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Andreas R. Grüntzig; Åke Senning; Walter E. Siegenthaler
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.