Successful predilation of a resistant, h
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Asakura, Yasushi ;Furukawa, Yoshiko ;Ishikawa, Shiro ;Asakura, Keiko ;Sueyoshi,
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A 65-year-old man with a restenotic lesion of the mid LAD was scheduled for Wiktor stent placement. The IVUS revealed circumferential severe calcification. Two conventional, non-compliant angioplasty balloons inflated to high pressures failed to achieved sufficient dilatation and both ruptured. At t