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Severe accordion effect: Myocardial ischemia due to wire complication during percutaneous coronary intervention: A case report

A mechanical alteration during manoeuvring of stiff guidewires in tortuous coronary arteries frequently induces vessel wall shortening and coronary psedostenosis, referred as accordion phenomenon. Subtraction of the guidewires normally leads to the entire resolution of the lesions. A case of this tr...

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Autores principales: Gavrielatos, Gerasimos, Pappas, Loukas K, Anthopoulos, Prodromos, Salachas, Anastasios, Ifantis, Georgios, Antonellis, Ioannis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18764947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-138