Clinical Case Reports (Feb 2023)

Successful coronary stent implantation using directional coronary atherectomy without side branch occlusion

  • Tomohiro Kawaguchi,
  • Kosuke Seiyama,
  • Masayuki Doi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6969
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Percutaneous coronary intervention with a drug‐eluting stent was successfully performed without a side branch (SB) occlusion. In this case, a directional coronary atherectomy catheter played an important role in modifying the plaque at the proximal left anterior descending artery and in crossing a wire to the jeopardized SB.

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