Dual wire technique for aortic coarctation stent placement
β Scribed by Konstantinos Lampropoulos; Werner Budts; Marc Gewillig
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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## Abstract This report describes a technique for correct positioning of a stent proximal to a bifurcation lesion treated with Vβstents. A second wire passed through the first cell of a stent, the opposite end of the anchor wire technique as first described by Szabo et al, facilitated precise stent