Coronary balloon angioplasty through diagnostic 6 french catheters
β Scribed by Villavicencio, Ramon ;Urban, Philip ;Muller, Thierry ;Favre, Josiane ;Meier, Bernhard
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 407 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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## Abstract The use of 4 French (4F) diagnostic catheters as guiding catheters for coronary angioβplasty using fixedβwire balloons in 2 patients with a stenosis of the right and left anterior descending coronary artery, respectively, is reported.
Use of 6 French guiding catheters for elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty has been limited by lack of a compatible autoperfusion balloon catheter for management of complications such as acute vessel closure and large subinti-ma1 dissections. We describe the successful use of a lo