Michael Aschermann
Charles University,Czech republic
Title: 40 years anniversary of first percutaneous coronary angioplasty
Biography
Biography: Michael Aschermann
Abstract
First percutaneous balloon coronary angioplasty was performed by Andreas Grüntzig on September 16, 1977 in Curych, Switzerland. His pioneer work started new era of coronary revascularisation all over the world. Since then, interventional cardiology began to grow immensly with new development in several topics: materials, technique of interventions, indications, type of lesions, restenosis prevention and treatment, stents, drug eluting stents, as well as drug treatment focused on early and late thrombosis after interventions. From clinical point of view interventions started with patients with chronic coronary artery disease, but moved further into the field of acute coronary syndromes, including acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevations. Currently, coronary interventions are quite common way of treatment of coronary artery disease, with hundreds of thousands of procedures performed every year in Europe, as well as in other parts of the world