Use of tandem stents for treatment of helicoidal dissection of the right coronary artery
Coronary dissection occurs frequently and in several degrees during coronary angioplasty, which is one of the mechanisms for increasing the lumen diameter of a vessel. However the length of the dissection may affect the procedure, becoming the most frequent cause of total occlusion after coronary an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC)
2000-06-01
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| Series: | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2000000600004 |
| Summary: | Coronary dissection occurs frequently and in several degrees during coronary angioplasty, which is one of the mechanisms for increasing the lumen diameter of a vessel. However the length of the dissection may affect the procedure, becoming the most frequent cause of total occlusion after coronary angioplasty. We report here a case of extensive dissection that occurred during the coronary angioplasty of a focused lesion, which we treated with two long stents. |
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| ISSN: | 0066-782X 1678-4170 |