Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses

Adequate plaque preparation in heavily calcific left main coronary stenoses is mandatory to ensure adequate stent implantation. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) is a potential alternative to atherectomy techniques for this purpose. The authors present 2 cases treated with IVL in a successful manner i...

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Autores principales: Salazar, Carlos H., Travieso, Alejandro, Gonzalo, Nieves, Escaned, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.05.008
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author Salazar, Carlos H.
Travieso, Alejandro
Gonzalo, Nieves
Escaned, Javier
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description Adequate plaque preparation in heavily calcific left main coronary stenoses is mandatory to ensure adequate stent implantation. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) is a potential alternative to atherectomy techniques for this purpose. The authors present 2 cases treated with IVL in a successful manner in the left main coronary artery.
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spelling pubmed-82886502021-07-26 Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses Salazar, Carlos H. Travieso, Alejandro Gonzalo, Nieves Escaned, Javier JACC Case Rep Case Report Adequate plaque preparation in heavily calcific left main coronary stenoses is mandatory to ensure adequate stent implantation. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) is a potential alternative to atherectomy techniques for this purpose. The authors present 2 cases treated with IVL in a successful manner in the left main coronary artery. Elsevier 2019-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8288650/ /pubmed/34316740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.05.008 Text en © 2019 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Escaned, Javier
Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses
title Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses
title_full Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses
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title_full_unstemmed Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses
title_short Intracoronary Lithotripsy in Percutaneous Treatment of Calcific Left Main Coronary Stenoses
title_sort intracoronary lithotripsy in percutaneous treatment of calcific left main coronary stenoses
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288650/
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