Abstract | OBJECTIVE: DESIGN: PATIENTS: 35 patients, age range 31 to 83 years (mean 60). SETTING: University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (tertiary referral centre). INTERVENTIONS: MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Device success (successful deployment of the device at the site of the lesion with resultant improvement in TIMI flow); clinical success (no residual stenosis at the end of the procedure with no in-hospital major adverse coronary events). RESULTS: Successful use of the device was achieved in 26 of the 35 cases. It failed to cross the lesion in five and failed to improve TIMI flow despite crossing the lesion in four. Clinical success was achieved in 30 of the 35 cases. Device related complications occurred in two cases (vessel perforation) and there was one intraprocedural death (acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock). CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | S Constantinides, T S N Lo, M Been, M F Shiu |
Journal | Heart (British Cardiac Society)
(Heart)
Vol. 87
Issue 5
Pg. 455-60
(May 2002)
ISSN: 1468-201X [Electronic] England |
PMID | 11997421
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
- Coronary Angiography
(methods)
- Coronary Thrombosis
(diagnostic imaging, drug therapy, surgery)
- Emergencies
- Equipment Design
- Feasibility Studies
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Myocardial Infarction
(etiology)
- Thrombectomy
(instrumentation, methods)
- Treatment Outcome
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