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Excimer laser-facilitated balloon angioplasty of a nondilatable lesion
D H Israel1, J D Marmur, T A Sanborn
1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Preliminary clinical experience with excimer laser coronary angioplasty shows that it is a safe and effective means of achieving nonsurgical coronary revascularization in selected patients but specific indications for its use are as yet undefined. In the present report a specific indication is proposed for the use of the excimer laser: to facilitate balloon inflation in a rigid stenosis that fails to dilate despite high balloon inflation pressures.