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JACC Case Rep
January 2025
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Percutaneous coronary intervention of a severely calcified coronary artery stenosis is associated with stent underexpansion and adverse outcomes. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) is a novel technology for fracturing calcified plaque in the coronary artery. We describe the first case of a severely calcified, undilatable coronary artery lesion.
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January 2025
Clinical Department of Interventional Cardiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Cardiol Rev
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY.
Coronary artery calcification is an impediment to percutaneous coronary interventions by obstructing the device pathway or stent deployment. To facilitate percutaneous coronary intervention in such complex lesions, high-pressure balloon dilations, atherectomy procedures, and specialty balloons are used but they all come with considerable limitations and periprocedural complications like dissection and perforation. To surpass these disadvantages, intravascular lithotripsy was introduced which acts by delivering high-pressure pulsatile sonic waves circumferentially thereby destroying the calcium deposits.
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January 2025
12th Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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