First use of a 5 french diagnostic catheter as a guiding catheter for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
- Vol. 18 (4), 276-278
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.1810180417
Abstract
We report the first use of a 5 French thin‐wall, large‐lumen diagnostic angiographic catheter as a guiding catheter for emergency angioplasty with an angioplasty balloon on a wire (PROBE™) for patients with acute circumflex coronary occlusion and hemodynamic compromise.Keywords
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