Clinical experience with the Monorail balloon catheter for coronary angioplasty
β Scribed by Finci, Leo ;Meier, Bernhard ;Roy, Paul ;Steffenino, Giuseppe ;Rutishauser, Wilhelm
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 502 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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One of the causes for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) failure is the inability to cross the lesion with the balloon catheter after guidewire positioning. The Europass@ coronary angioplasty catheter is a monorail Duralynm balloon catheter developed to enhance lesion crossability
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