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Use of a branch wire to anchor stents for exact placement proximal to bifurcation stents: The reverse Szabo technique
Author(s) -
Lo Henry,
Kern Morton J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.20761
Subject(s) - bifurcation , medicine , stent , lesion , target lesion , radiology , surgery , percutaneous coronary intervention , physics , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system , myocardial infarction
This report describes a technique for correct positioning of a stent proximal to a bifurcation lesion treated with V‐stents. A second wire passed through the first cell of a stent, the opposite end of the anchor wire technique as first described by Szabo et al, facilitated precise stent placement and eliminated erroneous positioning inside or outside the treated bifurcation lesion. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.