INVESTIGATION SIDE BRANCH ACCESS WITH SIMPLE VESSEL MODEL DURING BIFURCATION STENTING

D. Károly, E. Bognár, P. J. Szabó

Abstract

Endovascular stents such as coronary stents can be used for the treatment of atherosclerosis. If the narrowing involves a main vessel and a side branch as well, physicians have to use bifurcation stenting technique. Bifurcation lesions constitute nearly 15 % of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), so the investigation of bifurcation stenting methods is very important. This article introduces a simple method to measure side branch access and related functional stent properties in the case of stent-balloon technique. With this method we can tell if bifurcation stenting is possible or not, and if so the size of the available access.

Keywords

coronary stent, bifurcation stenting, vessel model, side branch access

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