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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Main Authors: Murillo K. Furukawa, Carlos Eduardo M. Domingues, Marcos César V. de Almeida, Virgílio Ribeiro Franco Jr, Décio Salvadori Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2000-06-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2000000600004