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Robert I. White, Jr, MD

JAMA. 1981;245(7):741-744.

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AN OUTGROWTH of diagnostic angiography was the realization that an intravascular catheter could be used for much more than delineating arterial and venous anatomy. Viewed in its simplest form, interventional radiology is considered any selective catheter technique adopted for treatment. Such techniques include intravascular infusion of vasodilators or vasoconstrictors or mechanical dilatation or occlusion of a vascular bed. Chemotherapeutic agents can be infused for palliation of metastatic neoplasms, and modified angiographic catheters, needles, and guide wires are used for drainage procedures in the biliary and urinary tract.

The following material highlights some of these advances in interventional radiology and also describes developments that are likely to occur in the next decade.

Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA)

Just 16 years ago, in 1964, Dotter and Jadkins¹ described the technique employing telescoping catheters to recanalize atherosclerotic stenoses of the femoral arteries. The technique was preserved and further developed by the pioneering efforts . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205 (Dr White).

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