Intravascular ultrasound for angiographically indeterminant left main coronary artery disease.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-1994
Abstract
The precise diagnosis of the presence of significant left main coronary artery disease has profound prognostic and therapeutic implications. Coronary cineangiography has shown to be imprecise and inaccurate to determine the percent stenosis of the left main coronary artery. We report a case with significant left main coronary artery disease in whom coronary cineangiography was in discordance with the clinical data and intravascular ultrasonography. Based on the intravascular ultrasound findings, the patient underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Therefore, the intravascular ultrasonography may be the procedure of choice for assessing indeterminant left main coronary artery lesions by coronary angiography.
Volume
11
Issue
1
First Page
65
Last Page
69
ISSN
0742-2822
Published In/Presented At
Parashara, D. K., Jacobs, L. E., Ledley, G. S., Yazdanfar, S., Oline, J., & Kotler, M. N. (1994). Intravascular ultrasound for angiographically indeterminant left main coronary artery disease. Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), 11(1), 65–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8175.1994.tb01048.x
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
10146661
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Document Type
Article