Pressure wire kinking, entanglement, and entrapment during intravascular ultrasound studies: A potentially dangerous complication

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 221-225

  Alfonso, Fernando ^a,b   Flores, Alex ^a   Escaned, Javier ^a   Sanmartín, Marcelo ^a   Hernández, Rosana ^a   Fernández Ortíz, Antonio ^a   Bañuelos, Camino ^a   Sabate, Manel ^a   Macaya, Carlos ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b Instituto Cardiovascular   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entrapment; Intravascular ultrasound; Kinking; Pressure wire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0034120960     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(200006)50:2<221::AID-CCD18>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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