Novel guidewire-based stent delivery system: Examination by intravascular ultrasound

✍ Scribed by Masao Yamasaki; Junya Ako; Yasuhiro Honda; Ali Hassan; Bon Koo; Alexandre Abizaid; Peter Fitzgerald; Robert Whitbourn

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-1946
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21562

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This report describes the first‐in‐man experience with a novel 0.014‐in. guidewire‐based, self‐expanding stent delivery system designed for small or tortuous coronary arteries that may be difficult to access with conventional stent‐delivery systems. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.