Key result
Using 6F diagnostic catheters as guides enables successful PCI in unfavorable vessel orifices.
Population
2 patients with critical coronary stenoses with unfavourable vessel orifices for standard guiding catheters
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May offer bailout option when standard guides fail to engage; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Case Report (n=2)
6 F. diagnostic catheters can serve as effective guiding catheters for coronary stenting when standard guiding catheters fail to engage the coronary ostium.
Tzifos et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Critical coronary stenoses (n=2). 6 F. coronary diagnostic catheter used as guiding catheter was evaluated on Successful coronary angioplasty and stent implantation. The use of 6 F. coronary diagnostic catheters as guiding catheters allowed successful coronary angioplasty and stent implantation in two patients with critical stenoses and unfavorable vessel orifices.
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