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Successful treatment of an excimer laser-associated coronary artery perforation with the Stack perfusion catheter
J D Parker1, P Ganz, A P Selwyn
1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 64-year-old woman underwent excimer laser angioplasty of the right coronary artery. The procedure was complicated by perforation, which was successfully managed without complication with a Stack perfusion catheter. This report describes successful nonsurgical treatment of laser-induced coronary perforation and makes recommendations for avoiding this complication in other patients.