[Intraluminal angioplasty. The viewpoint of the cardiovascular surgeon]

Transluminal angioplasty has currently acquired a freedom of a city in which the indications still remain to be defined. It is important to control results, to keep in mind the general context of the vascular disease, and to consider that transluminal dilatation is a technique of arterial reconstruction to which the same general principles as for other reconstructive therapies should be applied, particularly in atheromatous disease.