Initial clinical experience with distal
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Jeffrey J. Popma; Nicholas Cox; K. Eugene Hauptmann; Nicolaus Reifart; Renu Virm
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and native coronary arteries may be associated with embolization of particulate debris into the distal microcirculation. The FilterWire uses a polyurethane filter bag contained on a radiopaque loop to trap embolic d