Erschienen in:
29.10.2021 | Images in Cardiovascular Intervention
Directional coronary atherectomy using dual catheter system via bilateral transradial approach
verfasst von:
Yohei Numasawa, Yukihiro Himeno, Makoto Tanaka, Shogo Ikegami, Akito Matsumura, Takayuki Watanabe
Erschienen in:
Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics
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Ausgabe 3/2022
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Excerpt
Directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) is a useful debulking technique for reducing the plaque burden during percutaneous coronary intervention, especially for bifurcation lesions [
1]. Although the novel DCA catheter (Atherocut
™; NIPRO) is compatible with a 7-Fr guiding catheter, 8-Fr transfemoral intervention (TFI) is recommended mainly because of the inability to perform sufficient contrast injection via a 7-Fr guiding catheter during DCA. However, anatomical problems sometimes prevent TFI. …