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
Cutting balloon angioplasty for treatment of calcified coronary lesions
β Scribed by Evangelia Karvouni; Goran Stankovic; Remo Albiero; Takuro Takagi; Nicola Corvaja; Marco Vaghetti; Carlo Di Mario; Antonio Colombo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
- DOI
- 10.1002/ccd.1314
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