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Dilating guide wire: use of a new ultra-low-profile percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty system
T F Rizzo1, J Ciccone, R Werres
1Department of Interventional Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|April 1, 1989
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.