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Catheter-induced "accordion effect" in tortuous right external iliac artery during peripheral angiography
1Department of Adult Cardiology, Armed Forces Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
Mechanical distortion of tortuous coronary arteries mimicking spasm or dissection during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty due to balloon guidewire systems has previously been reported. This case reports a similar phenomenon in the peripheral vascular system induced by a diagnostic catheter. Recognition of this pseudo lesion may help to avoid complications and unnecessary intervention.