An 82-year-old woman undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty experienced perforation of the terminal portion of the left anterior descending coronary artery caused by guidewire trauma. The coronary artery perforation was successfully closed using a vascular occlusion system consist
Microcoil embolization for coronary artery perforation
โ Scribed by Ali Moustapha; Abid R. Assali; Stefano Sdringola; Richard W. Smalling
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 17 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
- DOI
- 10.1002/ccd.1254
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