title: Coronary bifurcation stenoses: the kissing balloon Probe technique via a single guiding catheter.
abstract: A new technique employing two balloon probes via a single (large-lumen) guiding catheter is described. Examples involving the left anterior descending, diagonal, left main (protected), left circumflex-obtuse marginal, and atrioventricular branches and the right coronary artery-posterior descending and posterolateral branches are described and illustrated. This new technology (balloon probes and large-lumen guiding catheter) permits an effective and simplified alternative to the use of the single-guide/two-wire and double-guide/two-dilatation catheter-wire approaches in selected cases in which significant branch vessels (vis-a-vis myocardial regional blood supply) are at risk.
authors.affiliation: United States Catheter and Instrument Company, Inc., Billerica, MA.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Myler
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: McConahay
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Stertzer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Cumberland
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Boucher
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hidalgo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000628:therapy; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged