Video 6: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again: A Stepwise Approach to the Non-Dilatable Lesion

Video 6. NC Quantum Apex at 24 atm with buddy wire in place (force-focused angioplasty). An Asahi Prowater (Abbott Vascular) guide wire was then placed as a parallel buddy wire and focused force balloon angioplasty was performed (Figure 5, Video 6), but again without successful dilatation of the lesion.

From "If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again: A Stepwise Approach to the Non-Dilatable Lesion"

Authors:

Antony G. Kaliyadan, MD, Henry Siu, MD, David L. Fischman, MD, Nicholas J. Ruggiero II, MD, Brandon M. Madsen, BS, and Michael P. Savage, MD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania