Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty restenosis: Potential prevention with laser balloon angioplasty

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.Richard Spears
2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 641-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. Galal ◽  
K. Attas ◽  
G. Baslaim

AbstractAn infant developed severe desaturation within a few hours of construction of a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt. Echocardiography revealed that the shunt had become occluded, and this was confirmed angiographically. At catheterisation, therefore, we passed a 0.014”percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty wire through the occluded shunt into the right pulmonary artery and then dilated the shunt successfully using a 5 mm coronary angioplasty balloon. Six weeks later, the shunt remained patent.


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