A 65-year-old man with a restenotic lesion of the mid LAD was scheduled for Wiktor stent placement. The IVUS revealed circumferential severe calcification. Two conventional, non-compliant angioplasty balloons inflated to high pressures failed to achieved sufficient dilatation and both ruptured. At t
Successful treatment of a bifurcation lesion with the Carina Bard stent: A case report
โ Scribed by Antonio Colombo; Flavio Airoldi; Imad Sheiban; Carlo Di Mario
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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