Laser atherectomy

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Management of Guidewire Entrapment With Laser Atherectomy

04/25/2017

Barbara Anna Danek , MD;

Imre Ungi , MD, PhD;

Judit Karacsonyi , MD, PhD;

José Roberto Martínez-Parachini , MD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Subhash Banerjee , MD, FSCAI;

Aris Karatasakis , MD;

A 62-year-old man was referred for percutaneous coronary intervention of a severe circumflex lesion. The guidewire became entangled in the previously implanted left anterior descending artery stent. Caution should be used when wiring through...

A 62-year-old man was referred...

04/25/2017

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again: A Stepwise Approach to the Non-Dilatable Lesion

01/08/2016

Antony G. Kaliyadan , MD;

Henry Siu , MD;

David L. Fischman , MD;

Nicholas J. Ruggiero II, MD;

Brandon M. Madsen , BS ;

Michael P. Savage , MD, CVT;

We describe a case using an escalating, stepwise approach to a non-dilatable lesion, which ultimately was successfully dilated after the use of an excimer laser catheter.

We describe a case using an...

01/08/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Calcium Corner

EXCITE ISR: Laser Atherectomy for the Treatment of Femoropopliteal In-Stent Restenosis

11/05/2014

Eric J. Dippel , MD;

Data from the prospective, randomized Excimer Laser Atherectomy versus Balloon Angioplasty for Treatment of Femoropopliteal In-Stent Restenosis (EXCITE ISR) trial was presented on September 16th as a late-breaking clinical trial at the 2014...

Data from the prospective,...

11/05/2014

Cath Lab Digest