Complications at balloon catheter angiography. Experiments in rabbits and dogs.
Overdistension of a balloon catheter may injure an artery and this risk increases with decreasing vessel calibre. Before balloon occlusion an estimation of the calibre of the vessel at a preliminary angiography is recommended.
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