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Coronary balloon angioplasty (PTCA) introduced in 1977, followed by coronary stenting in 1986 represent the only two percutaneous interventions (PCI) that have documented and confirmed clinical benefit for the patient and are being performed in current practice at the large-scale basis1. Many other coronary devices, still remaining as a part of interventional cardiologist’s arsenal, have triggered a great admiration at the time of initial clinical application but turned out to be less successful at the longterm follow-up. The author of this article has been in the field of interventional cardiology from the begging of its routine application and believes that these so-called “adjunctive” devices need to be mentioned. It is like reading a medical paper that shows negative result but from it, one can learn a lot, sometimes even more than reading a study with positive, significant result. During last three decades, the level of performed PCI has progressively increased reaching currently a steady usage level while new device technologies are still in progress (Figure 1). For this analysis, Switzerland was chosen as sample country for comparisons due to its stable politiDr Leo Finci Membre de la Société Suisse de Cardiologie, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Founding Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.

Percutaneous coronary interventions over the last three decades: The adjunctive devices (role, development and perspectives)