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Coronary angioplasty on an impassable calcified stenosis using a buddy balloon technique
Steven Siu-Lung Li1, Cheung-Wah Cheng
1Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. listevensl@yahoo.com
Abstract:
We report our experience in coronary angioplasty on a calcified lesion that was not passable with balloon catheters despite an adequate preangioplasty lumen size on angiogram and intravascular ultrasonography study. The angioplasty was successfully performed with a simple and inexpensive buddy balloon technique.