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Studies from Y.L. Han et al add new findings in the area of heart surgery

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 15th, 2008

" Failure of balloon catheter passing through the occluded segment accounts for 10%-15% of all procedures during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO). We sought to investigate an original technique for facilitating balloon catheter passing by multi-wire plaque crushing," scientists in Shenyang, People's Republic of China report.

" Between July 2000 and October 2007, 152 patients with 164 CTO lesions who had failed balloon passing were treated by multi-wire plaque crushing technique. The main process of this technique was to insert 1 or 2 wires along with the original wire located in the true lumen of CTO lesions after balloon...

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