Coaxial double catheter technique followed by buddy wire placement for ostial lesion of right coronary artery with anterior take-off.
This report describes a technique for percutaneous coronary intervention in an ostial lesion with difficult take-off utilising an 8F guiding catheter and a 5F 125 cm-long diagnostic catheter followed by buddy wire placement.
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, San Raffaele Hospital, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Shinichi
S
Furuichi
Giuseppe M
GM
Sangiorgi
Antonio
A
Colombo
D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome