Balloon angioplasty and coronary stent
Angioplastia con balón y stent coronario
- Date
- 1977-1986 · confidence high
- Place
- University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland (Grüntzig, 1977); Toulouse, France (Puel, first stent, 1986)
- Credited to
- Andreas Grüntzig (angioplasty, 1977); Jacques Puel and Ulrich Sigwart (stent, 1986); Julio Palmaz (expandable stent, 1988); drug-eluting stents (2002)
- People
- 👤 Andreas Roland Grüntzig1939–1985👤 Jacques Puel1946–2008👤 Julio Palmaz1945–👤 Ulrich Sigwart1941–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Opening of blocked coronary arteries with a balloon catheter and placement of a metal mesh that keeps them open, without open surgery. It is the standard treatment for heart attack.
What it led to
- Interventional cardiology and the reduction in mortality from heart attack
- Catheter valve replacement (TAVI, 2002)
- The vascular device industry
Built on
- Saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft9 de mayo de 1967
- cardiac catheterisation
- fluoroscopy
- steel and nitinol alloys
Made possible
- TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation)
- drug-eluting stents
- stroke thrombectomy