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[Rotablator and endoprosthesis on the left main coronary trunk]
A F Chaix1, P Barragan, M Silvestri
1Centre d'urgences et d'explorations cardiovasculaires, clinique les Alpilles, Marseille.
Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 78 year old woman with unstable angina due to significant stenosis of the left main coronary artery and occlusion of the right coronary artery was treated medically for 29 months because of a surgical contraindication. Resistance to drug therapy led to referral for complex angioplasty of the left main, left anterior descending and left circumflex arteries, successively by rotablator and balloon angioplasty. An immediate elastic recoil on the left main coronary artery led to implantation of a Palma-Schatz stent. There were no complications and the patient is asymptomatic twenty months later.