EBC - ON DEMAND
Clinical and RX diagnosis
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)