Editorial comment: Culprit vessel angioplasty: It's a small world after all

✍ Scribed by Kahn, Joel K.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 65 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0304(199603)37:3<262::aid-ccd7>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Kirigin and coworkers report in this issue a case of a non-Q wave myocardial infarction and post-infarction unstable angina associated with an isolated stenosis of a small acute marginal branch of the right coronary artery [I]. Angioplasty was performed with a 2.0 mm balloon catheter and post-procedural course was uneventful. Missing from the report is a description of the medical