JACC: Case Reports (Oct 2020)

Use of Lithotripsy in a Calcified Saphenous Vein Graft

  • Menno van Gameren, MD, PhD,
  • Jeroen Vos, MD, PhD,
  • Alexander J.J. IJsselmuiden, MD, PhD,
  • Ben J.L. Van den Branden, MD, PhD,
  • Martijn Meuwissen, MD, PhD,
  • Peter den Heijer, MD, PhD,
  • Bastiaan E. Schölzel, MD, PhD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 12
pp. 1891 – 1894

Abstract

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Percutaneous coronary interventions in saphenous vein grafts can pose a variety of challenges, such as severely calcified lesions. If these lesions are nondilatable, lithotripsy can arguably be a proper tool for lesion preparation. We present a case in which a nondilatable, calcified saphenous vein graft was successfully treated using Shockwave lithotripsy. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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