Erschienen in:
20.07.2023 | Images in Cardiovascular Intervention
A case of a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy in a single coronary artery treated using directional coronary atherectomy without coronary stenting
verfasst von:
Yasuki Omori, Ryo Nishio, Ryo Takeshige, Makito Ozawa, Daisuke Matsumoto, Hiroshi Takaishi
Erschienen in:
Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics
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Ausgabe 1/2024
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Excerpt
The prevalence of a single coronary artery is 0.035% among patients who undergo coronary angiography (CAG) and that of right coronary artery (RCA) origination from the left anterior descending artery (LAD) is 0.012% in patients who have undergone CAG [
1]. Directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) is useful for reducing the plaque burden during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) [
2]. …