Use of exchange wires in coronary angioplasty.
A 300 cm exchange guide wire was used as the primary wire in 59 consecutive patients referred for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. The success rate of the angioplasty using this as the only wire was 92% (54 of 59), and we were able to pass the exchange guide wire into the distal vessel in 56 of the 59 patients (95%). We believe the exchange wire technique has a place in the first-line approach to complex coronary angioplasty.
Bogart
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Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Kansas City, MO 64108.
Brown
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B
Mortko
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Miller
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JT
D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006493:Heparin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans
D006493:Heparin