FEASIBILITY, SAFETY, AND OUTCOMES WITH A CORONARY PRESSURE WIRE SYSTEM USED FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS

Autor: Bassem M. Chehab, James L. Vacek, Peter Tadros, Vinodh Jeevanantham, Andre Saad, Kamal Gupta, Buddhadeb Dawn, Mark Wiley
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. (13):E134
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(12)60135-1
Popis: Retrograde passage through a stenotic aortic valve (AV), with the purpose of measuring invasively the gradient across the AV, is not without risk. The utility of a 0.014” coronary pressure wire (CPW) for crossing severely stenotic AV has not been investigated. We examined the feasibility
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