Inside the "Razor Effect": Lessons From Optical Coherence Tomography-What Does Angiography Hide?

Pierluigi Merella; Giovanni Lorenzoni; Gavino Casu

doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2018.09.038

Inside the "Razor Effect": Lessons From Optical Coherence Tomography-What Does Angiography Hide?

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Feb 25;12(4):409-410. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.09.038. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Authors

Pierluigi Merella¹, Giovanni Lorenzoni², Gavino Casu²

Affiliations

¹ Unità Operativa Complessa di Cardiologia, Ospedale San Francesco, Nuoro, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Unità Operativa Complessa di Cardiologia, Ospedale San Francesco, Nuoro, Italy.

PMID: 30553715
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.09.038

No abstract available

Keywords: balloon-assisted tracking technique; radial artery OCT; radial artery access; radial artery imaging; radial artery perforation; razor effect.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
Acute Coronary Syndrome / therapy*
Aged
Angiography*
Catheterization, Peripheral / adverse effects*
Catheterization, Peripheral / instrumentation
Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging*
Hemorrhage / etiology
Humans
Male
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention*
Predictive Value of Tests
Radial Artery / diagnostic imaging*
Radial Artery / injuries
Tomography, Optical Coherence*
Treatment Outcome
Vascular Access Devices
Vascular System Injuries / diagnostic imaging*
Vascular System Injuries / etiology