| Literature DB >> 10842393 |
H Gilutz1, J M Weinstein, R Ilia.
Abstract
We describe a patient in whom balloon rupture occurred three times during inflation in a stent with restenosis in the left anterior descending artery. The cause of rupture was detected by intravascular ultrasound: a calcified ridge that protruded between the stent struts in the distal stent body.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10842393 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-726x(200006)50:2<212::aid-ccd15>3.0.co;2-t
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv ISSN: 1522-1946 Impact factor: 2.692