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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
  • paper CFU4

Current status of percutaneous excimer laser angioplasty

WARREN S. GRUNDFEST, FRANK LITVAK, N. EIGLER, S. MARGOLIS, T. GOLD-ENBERG, J. LAUDENSLAGER, and J. FORRESTER

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Abstract

A 308-nm XeCl excimer laser with a 225-ns pulse duration provides energy through fiber optics for ablation of obstructive atherosclerotic lesions. Initial clinical trials in 110 patients showed an 85% success rate with no deaths or perforations.

© 1990 Optical Society of America

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