Publications by authors named "W Auchschwelk"
Objective: The following retrospective observational study assesses the long-term results of intracoronary beta-radiation therapy for patients with in-stent restenosis.
Background: Beta-radiation has been used to treat patients with coronary in-stent restenosis. However, long-term clinical success using this technique has not at this time been established.
Aims: Restenosis in bare-metal stents is in part related to stent design and material. Optimized strut design of cobalt-chrome (CoCr) stents may yield nearly comparable results to drug-eluting stents (DES) in selected lesions. The prospective multicenter DaVinci registry investigates the clinical outcome of a CoCr coronary stent (MULTI-LINK VISION), particularly in terms of patients with diabetes and complex lesions (B1, B2, C).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The number of elderly patients with coronary heart disease is rapidly growing. Morbidity, related with PTCA is increased in elderly patients, presumably because of the more complex adverse baseline characteristics. However, it has not been firmly elucidated whether routine use of coronary stents is associated with a more favourable outcome in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The introduction of robotics into cardiosurgical practice in 1998 has enabled totally endoscopic closed chest procedures. Totally endoscopic grafting of the LAD (TECAB) is no longer an experimental procedure.
Case Report: We report on a case with totally endoscopic bilateral internal thoracic artery bypass grafting to the left anterior descending and right coronary artery in a 36-year-old obese female diabetic patient using the daVinci surgical system.