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Palmaz-Schatz stent implantation through a tortuous internal mammary artery graft into an occluded left anterior descending artery achieved good angiographic and clinical results.
Demonstrates the feasibility of implanting a stent in the left anterior descending coronary artery through a tortuous left internal mammary artery graft for recurrent occlusion.
Case demonstrates technical feasibility; leaves open generalizability and need for prospective validation before clinical adoption.
We describe a case of balloon angioplasty of a totally occluded left anterior descending coronary artery through a tortuous left internal mammary artery graft. Because of early recurrence of the lesion, we implanted a short Palmaz-Schatz stent with good angiographic and clinical results.
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Rubartelli et al. (1996) studied this question. Palmaz-Schatz stent implantation through a tortuous internal mammary artery graft into an occluded left anterior descending artery achieved good angiographic and clinical results.
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