after therapeutic ptca treatment , which successfully dilated the culprit coronary artery in all 16 patients , and a 5-minute recovery period , a single retroperfusion-treated lad occlusion ( 101 +/- 36 seconds ) was compared with equivalent untreated control lad occlusions ( 86 +/- 24 seconds ) before and after the retroperfusion-supported balloon occlusion .
C2936173
ptca
C0205042
coronary