In August 1979, two years and one month after the first percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was performed in the world by Andreas Grüntzig, we received at Santa Casa de Misericordia in Curitiba (SCMC) a 55-year-old male patient (A.S.O.) with Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) class 2 stable angina. Coronary angiography showed a severe (75-80 DS%) lesion in the middle segment of the Right Coronary Artery (RCA). The left coronary artery system did not have any significant atherosclerotic lesion and the left […]