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European Bifurcation Club 2018 – EBC 2018 – Brussels, Belgium

STENT LONGITUDINAL DISTORSION DURING LEFT MAIN STENTING

Clinical and RX diagnosis

Author: Yves Louvard, MD, ICPS, France

 

CLINICAL AND RX DIAGNOSIS

  • Ostial/proximal lesion (but can occur in proximal LAD/Diag lesion)
  • Jaided wire
  • Guiding / stent conflict (the marker is not at the tip of the catheter)
  • Difficulty to recross the crossover stent, even with a small balloon
  • Stent is shorten, displaced (elongated), dense radio-opaque spots in the area of the stent (visible with X-Ray, better with stent enhancement)

 

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