SUBACUTE NARROWING OF THE LEFT MAIN CORONARY-ARTERY FOLLOWING DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY FOR PROXIMAL OBSTRUCTIVE CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE

Authors
PIEK JJ KOCH KT VANDERWAL AC BECKER AE
Citation
Jj. Piek et al., SUBACUTE NARROWING OF THE LEFT MAIN CORONARY-ARTERY FOLLOWING DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY FOR PROXIMAL OBSTRUCTIVE CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE, Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis, 40(4), 1997, pp. 361-363
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis → ACNP
ISSN journal
00986569
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
361 - 363
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-6569(1997)40:4<361:SNOTLM>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Directional atherectomy is an alternative device for treatment of high ly eccentric or proximal coronary lesions considered less suitable for balloon angioplasty, We report a patient with exuberant neointimal pr oliferation, extending into the left main coronary artery, following d irectional atherectomy of the proximal target site in the left circumf lex artery, This observation indicates that patients with mild left ma in disease have an increased risk to develop this complication followi ng directional atherectomy. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.