title: Two-wire protection of side branches to prevent side branch occlusion during stent implantation for bifurcational lesions.
abstract: To prevent side branch occlusion during bifurcational lesion stenting, the placement of a wire in both the main branch and side branch is performed for "side-branch protection". However, this procedure does not always prevent side branch occlusion. A procedure for placing two wires in the side branch, called "two-wire protection of side branches", is considered to be more likely to prevent occlusion compared with one-wire protection of the side branch. We report on three cases in which "two-wire protection of side branches" was effectively performed during the stenting of bifurcational lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Niigata City General Hospital, 463-7 Shumoku, Chuo-ku, Niigata, 950-1197, Japan, oda@hosp.niigata.niigata.jp.
authors.forename: Hirotaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Keiichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuchida
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: Kazuyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miida