KISSING BALLOON TECHNIQUE IN PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY - SINGLE-GUIDE CATHETER, DUAL-WIRE, DUAL-BALLOON SYSTEM WITH SINGLE INFLATION DEVICE

This is a report of a new modification of the ''kissing balloon'' tech nique for complex multivessel angioplasty. Based on a series of five c onsecutive cases, we describe a representative case in which a single guide catheter and two over-the-wire balloon catheters were utilized i n association with a single inflation device, This approach could have significant advantages over the two-inflation-device approach, based primarily on its lower cost without compromise of the effectiveness an d safety of the technique. (C) 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.