Dilating guide wire: Use of a new ultra‐low‐profile percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty system
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
- Vol. 16 (4) , 258-262
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.1810160411
Abstract
The following case reports represent two examples using the newly released Dilating Guide Wire. The balloon‐wire system is specifically designed to be used as a steerable percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) guide wire. It can be utilized as a predilatation device in combination with a standard PTCA dilating balloon or as a free‐standing dilatation catheter. As applied to the following situations, predilatation proved to be an effective time‐ and step‐saving approach when confronting severely stenosed coronary artery lesions.Keywords
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