Intravascular ultrasound-guided angioplasty and stenting in a case of transplant coronary artery disease.
Allograft vasculopathy in cardiac transplant recipients occurs commonly at 5 years post transplantation. We report a case of post-transplant right coronary discrete stenosis which was treated with balloon angioplasty and stent implantation under intravascular ultrasound guidance.
Yadav
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Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai.
Anbarasan
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Ajit
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Sivaraman
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D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional