Coronary bifurcation stenoses: the kissing balloon Probe technique via a single guiding catheter

Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1989 Apr;16(4):267-78. doi: 10.1002/ccd.1810160413.

Abstract

A new technique employing two balloon probes via a single (large-lumen) guiding catheter is described. Examples involving the left anterior descending, diagonal, left main (protected), left circumflex-obtuse marginal, and atrioventricular branches and the right coronary artery-posterior descending and posterolateral branches are described and illustrated. This new technology (balloon probes and large-lumen guiding catheter) permits an effective and simplified alternative to the use of the single-guide/two-wire and double-guide/two-dilatation catheter-wire approaches in selected cases in which significant branch vessels (vis-a-vis myocardial regional blood supply) are at risk.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angiography
  • Angioplasty, Balloon / instrumentation*
  • Angioplasty, Balloon / methods
  • Constriction, Pathologic / therapy
  • Coronary Disease / therapy*
  • Coronary Vessels*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged