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Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion

We present a case of calcified chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery with ambiguous cap at the bifurcation with a large diagonal branch, in which intravascular lithoplasty balloon was used to modify the calcified proximal cap and facilitate wire crossing. (Level of...

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Autores principales: Elbasha, Karim, Richardt, Gert, Hemetsberger, Rayyan, Allali, Abdelhakim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8743813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.11.005
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description We present a case of calcified chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery with ambiguous cap at the bifurcation with a large diagonal branch, in which intravascular lithoplasty balloon was used to modify the calcified proximal cap and facilitate wire crossing. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-87438132022-01-13 Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion Elbasha, Karim Richardt, Gert Hemetsberger, Rayyan Allali, Abdelhakim JACC Case Rep Case Report We present a case of calcified chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery with ambiguous cap at the bifurcation with a large diagonal branch, in which intravascular lithoplasty balloon was used to modify the calcified proximal cap and facilitate wire crossing. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8743813/ /pubmed/35036943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.11.005 Text en © 2022 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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Elbasha, Karim
Richardt, Gert
Hemetsberger, Rayyan
Allali, Abdelhakim
Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title_full Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title_fullStr Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title_full_unstemmed Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title_short Lithoplasty-Facilitated Proximal Cap Penetration of a Calcified Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Lesion
title_sort lithoplasty-facilitated proximal cap penetration of a calcified chronic total occlusion coronary lesion
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8743813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.11.005
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