Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Registries I, II, and III and the Dynamic Registry

To evaluate the long-term efficacy of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and alternative angioplasty devices in patients with coronary heart disease. There are four registries. The first registry followed 3,079 patients who received PTCA between 1977 and 1982. The second registry followed 1,500 patients from the first registry for a minimum of five years and followed 2,000 newly entered patients who received PTCA in 1985 and 1986 so that the second cohort would also be followed for five years. The third registry, the New Approaches to Coronary Intervention (NACI), followed approximately 4,424 patients between November 1990 and February 1997. The dynamic evaluation study will follow a total of 6,000 procedures.