| Abstract | Racial difference and small stature have been reported to account for a smaller coronary vessel size in Chinese. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in small vessels and in the elderly are associated with a higher complication rate. From January 1994 to January 1997, twenty-five patients aged eighty or above underwent twenty-seven PTCA procedures in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, to investigate the outcome of in-hospital and long-term clinical of PTCA in octogenarian Chinese. This is an abstract of the study. |
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