“Kissing balloon” technique in percutaneous transluminal coronary angiography: Single-guide catheter, dual-wire, dual-balloon system with single inflation device

✍ Scribed by Krikorian, Raffi K. ;Vacek, James L. ;Beauchamp, Gary B.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 286 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0304(199603)37:3<331::aid-ccd26>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

This is a report of a new modification of the "kissing balloon"

technique for complex multivessel angioplasty. Based on a series of five consecutive cases, we describe a representative case in which a single guide catheter and two over-the-wire balloon catheters were utilized in association with a single inflation device. This approach could have significant advantages over the two-inflation-device approach, based primarily on its lower cost without compromise of the effectiveness and safety of the technique.