Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy

G Casella; J Rieber; H Mudra; V Klauss

doi:10.1016/s1053-2498(99)00074-1

Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy

J Heart Lung Transplant. 1999 Nov;18(11):1143-6. doi: 10.1016/s1053-2498(99)00074-1.

Authors

G Casella¹, J Rieber, H Mudra, V Klauss

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

PMID: 10598740
DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(99)00074-1

Abstract

We report a case of successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty guided from pressure-wire measurements in a transplanted patient. Fractional flow reserve, a lesion-specific, pressure-independent index of functional stenosis severity, was used to guide the intervention.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / instrumentation*
Blood Flow Velocity
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Circulation
Coronary Disease / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Disease / therapy*
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
Graft Occlusion, Vascular / diagnostic imaging
Graft Occlusion, Vascular / therapy*
Heart Transplantation*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pressure
Severity of Illness Index
Transplantation, Homologous
Ultrasonography, Interventional