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Arq Bras Cardiol
; 74(6): 513-8, 2000 Jun.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10975141
ABSTRACT
Coronary dissection occurs frequently and in several degrees during coronary angioplasty, which is one of the mechanisms for increasing the lumen diameter of a vessel. However the length of the dissection may affect the procedure, becoming the most frequent cause of total occlusion after coronary angioplasty. We report here a case of extensive dissection that occurred during the coronary angioplasty of a focused lesion, which we treated with two long stents.