"Virtual" in-vivo bench test for bifurcation stenting with "StentBoost"

Int J Cardiol. 2009 Apr 3;133(2):e67-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.11.018. Epub 2008 Feb 21.

Abstract

"StentBoost" is a new angiographic technique that allows improved angiographic visualization of stents deployed in coronary arteries, by enhancing the X-ray focus of the region where the stent is placed. Using this technique we were able to assess the deformation and the expansion of a stent deployed to treat a bifurcation lesion between the mid-left anterior descending (LAD) artery and a big second diagonal branch, during sequential inflations of: (1) the stent per se in the LAD, (2) the ostium of the diagonal branch through the stent struts, (3) the stent again with a non compliant balloon, and (4) both branches with the kissing balloon technique. "StentBoost" guided our clinical and angiographic decision-making process and allowed us to create a "virtual" bench test of the stent deployed at the level of the bifurcation treated.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary
  • Coronary Angiography / methods*
  • Coronary Disease / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Stents*