title: First use of a 5 French diagnostic catheter as a guiding catheter for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
abstract: We report the first use of a 5 French thin-wall, large-lumen diagnostic angiographic catheter as a guiding catheter for emergency angioplasty with an angioplasty balloon on a wire (PROBE) for patients with acute circumflex coronary occlusion and hemodynamic compromise.
authors.affiliation: Evanston Hospital, Illinois.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Salinger
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kern
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans