Missing left main ostio-proximal coronary artery disease during angiography using tiger catheter

• Main Authors: Biswajit Majumder, Viral Tandel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
• Series: Heart India
• Subjects: Coronary angiogram; optitorque Tiger catheter; ostio-proximal left main coronary artery disease
• Online Access: http://www.heartindia.net/article.asp?issn=2321-449x;year=2016;volume=4;issue=3;spage=108;epage=109;aulast=Majumder

Coronary angiography by right radial artery route using Optitorque Tiger catheter is on the rise given the low rate of local complications and feasibility to perform it as a day-care procedure. We report here a case of coronary angiography performed using Optitorque Tiger catheter (5-French) which resulted in a diagnostic error, missing the ostio-proximal left main coronary artery disease which was later detected using EBU 3.5 guide catheter (7-French) while performing angioplasty.