Pullback atherectomy (PAC) for the treatment of complex bifurcation coronary artery disease

✍ Scribed by Fischell, Tim A. ;Drexler, Helmut

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 396 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0304(199606)38:2<218::aid-ccd23>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

We report initial successful results using a novel retrograde cutting (pullback) atherectomy catheter (PAC) to treat complex bifurcation coronary artery dlsease, in 2 patients. In one case a bifurcatlon lesion involving the left anterlor descending and a large diagonal branch was treated without the need for two-wire or kissing-balloon technique. In the second case a high-grade eccentric lesion of the right coronary arfery at the site of a right ventricular marginal branch was treated successfully. This r e port describes the first clinical application of pullback atherectomy in human coronary circulatlon, and suggests that thls device may play a useful role in the treatment of complex bifurcation coronary artery disease.