EBC - ON DEMAND
European Bifurcation Club 2011, EBC 2011 – Lisbon, Portugal
New techniques or old technique improvements Session
Highway technique
Author: Alp Burak Catakoglu, MD, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
LIMITATIONS
- Not recommended for Medina 0/0/1
- Final kissing balloon is debatable in patients with MV stenting only
CONCLUSION
- Highway technique, is an alternative method for side branch protection.
- Clinical outcomes should be tested in randomized studies.