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Noninvasive Visualization of an Apparent Patent Intracoronary Stent by Transesophageal Echocardiography

Peter KearneyRaimund ErbelUwe NixdorffHans-jürgen RupprechtJürgen MeyerSteffen Trautmann

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Malemedicine.medical_specialtyNoninvasive imagingIntracoronary stentmedicine.medical_treatmentCoronary DiseaseCoronary AngiographyInternal medicinemedicineHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingcardiovascular diseasesAngioplasty Balloon CoronaryVascular PatencyInterventional cardiologybusiness.industryStentMiddle Agedequipment and suppliesCoronary VesselsCardiologyLEFT CIRCUMFLEX CORONARY ARTERYStentsRadiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessEchocardiography Transesophageal

description

In the area of increasing interventional techniques there is a need for noninvasive imaging modalities to provide postinterventional follow-up. We were able to visualize the apparent patency and measure the dimensions of an intracoronary Palmaz-Schatz stent in the left circumflex coronary artery using transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiography. This report indicates the potential of echocardiography to directly assess coronary stents.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1995-06-07Echocardiography
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8175.1995.tb00563.x