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Every medical specialty has periods of great prosperity and progress and other times when the specialty is in the midst of challenges and/or crisis. For example, prior to the advent of percutaneous coronary angioplasty in the early 1980s, the field of interventional cardiology (IC) was in the doldrums, with a relatively small number of cardiologists mainly performing diagnostic angiographies.

Competitive challenges spur interest in new procedures