title: Coronary angioplasty with 7F guiding catheters.
abstract: The performance of 7F guiding catheters for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was investigated in 300 patients. A total of 233 patients had single-vessel PTCA and 67 had multivessel PTCA. Angioplasty was attempted for 371 lesions (141 [38%] in the left anterior descending, 124 [33%] in the right coronary artery, and 95 [26%] in the left circumflex coronary artery or their branches; 10 [3%] in a bypass graft, and one in the left main stem). The mean degree of stenosis was 86 +/- 11% (range 60% to 100%). The monorail technique was used in 83%, and balloon-on-a-wire devices were used in 6% of cases. The balloon sizes varied between 2.0 and 4.25 mm. There was a 98% technical success rate for the 325 nontotal lesions. Five could not be crossed with the wire. Exchange to an 8F guiding catheter was done in four cases (1.2%) and yielded success in two of them. In 46 occlusions the success rate was 72%. Nine were failures due to an inability to cross the wire, another two were balloon failures, and in two cases the residual stenosis was greater than 50%. The mean residual stenosis of successful cases was 24 +/- 18%. Overall, the primary success rate was 95%. The complications were: in-hospital death in five patients (1.7%); infarction in 12 (4%); emergency bypass surgery in one; and significant inguinal hematoma in five (1.7%). Coronary angioplasty through 7F guiding catheters yields a high success rate with less coronary wedging and a smaller puncture hole.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Center, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Villavicencio
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Pande
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sztajzel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de la Serna
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000295:instrumentation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D012074:Remission Induction