Coronary and structural heart interventions in Switzerland 2018.

Since the first coronary angioplasty by Andreas Grüntzig in Zurich in 1977, the number of cardiac interventional procedures has steadily increased. The aim of this report is to summarise the state of catheter-based cardiac interventions in adults in Switzerland in 2018. Since 1987, the Working Group Interventional Cardiology of the Swiss Society of Cardiology has collected annually aggregate data from all facilities with cardiac catheterisation laboratories in the country, currently 36 institutions in 17 cantons of Switzerland.

Early Recoil After Balloon Angioplasty of Erection-Related Arteries in Patients With Arteriogenic Erectile Dysfunction.

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of elastic recoil in patients presenting with erectile dysfunction (ED) undergoing endovascular revascularization of the pudendal or penile arteries.

Methods: A consecutive series of 21 ED patients (mean age 58.3±9.

Coronary collateral perfusion in patients with coronary artery disease: effect of metoprolol.

Background: The use of ultrathin Doppler angioplasty guidewires has made it possible to measure collateral flow quantitatively. Pharmacologic interventions have been shown to influence collateral flow and, thus, to affect myocardial ischaemia.

Methods: Twenty-five patients with coronary artery disease undergoing PTCA were included in the present analysis.