1. 'T'-shaped stent placement: A technique for the treatment of dissected bifurcation lesions
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Didier Carrié, Elle Karouny, Jacques Puel, and Salah Chouairi
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Stent ,Dissection (medical) ,medicine.disease ,Coronary heart disease ,Surgery ,Catheter ,Stent placement ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Angioplasty ,Medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,Radiology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Artery - Abstract
Despite operator experience and improved catheter technology, acute vessel closure is inherently associated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of complex lesions. This case study describes a patient who developed an occlusive dissection post PTCA at the bifurcation of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and its diagonal branch. The “T”-shaped wiktor stent placement immediately re-establishes full flow, obviating the necessity for emergent surgery. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- 1996
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