[Interventional radiology and vascular pathology]

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) has been an important step in the therapy of arterial diseases. Nowadays, it opens the way to new techniques which main goals are to improve the PTA results and to enlarge the indications. This article review these new techniques. The principles, the therapeutic possibilities, the advantages and the inconvenience of each are evaluated, based upon the personal experience of the authors, the bibliography of current literature and the proceedings of a meeting organized on this topic (Toulouse, February 1988). All these procedures are encouraging and let foresee new possible therapy in vascular pathology.