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Does excimer laser coronary angioplasty facilitate successful balloon dilatation in patients with heavily calcified coronary lesions failing conventional angioplasty?
Case Report (n=5)
Does excimer laser coronary angioplasty facilitate successful balloon dilatation in patients with heavily calcified coronary lesions failing conventional angioplasty?
Excimer laser coronary angioplasty is a useful adjunctive procedure for heavily calcified coronary stenoses that cannot be crossed or dilated with conventional balloon angioplasty.
We report five patients where excimer laser coronary angioplasty facilitated successful balloon dilatation of heavily calcified lesions that could not be dilated by conventional angioplasty techniques alone. In each case, the lesion was crossed successfully with a guide wire. Conventional angioplasty failed because of inability to cross the lesion with a balloon (four lesions) or inability to dilate the lesion with balloon inflation (two lesions). These cases illustrate an indication for excimer laser coronary angioplasty as an adjunctive procedure in heavily calcified coronary stenoses.
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Wolfe et al. (1993) conducted a case report in Heavily calcified coronary stenoses (n=5). Excimer laser coronary angioplasty vs. Conventional angioplasty alone was evaluated on Successful balloon dilatation.
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