Key result
The stent tail wire or Szabo technique facilitates precise ostial stent placement and eliminates errors of positioning inside or outside the ostial narrowing.
Why the study?
Does the stent tail wire (Szabo) technique facilitate precise ostial stent placement?
Does the stent tail wire (Szabo) technique facilitate precise ostial stent placement?
The Szabo technique provides a method for precise stent positioning in ostial stenoses using a second anchor wire.
May enhance ostial PCI precision in select cases; leaves open need for prospective validation before broader adoption.
This report describes a technique for correct positioning of a stent in an ostial stenosis by using a second wire passed through the last cell of a stent. The anchor wire technique, first described by Szabo et al. [Szabo S, Abramowitz B, Vaitkus PT. Am J Cardiol 2005;96:212H], will facilitate precise ostial stent placement and eliminate errors of positioning inside or outside the ostial narrowing.
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Kern et al. (2006) studied Ostial stenoses. Stent tail wire or Szabo technique was evaluated on Precise ostial stent placement. The stent tail wire or Szabo technique facilitates precise ostial stent placement and eliminates errors of positioning inside or outside the ostial narrowing.
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