Halfway rotational atherectomy for calcified lesions: Comparison with conventional rotational atherectomy in a propensity-score matched analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>The incidence of severe complications such as burr entrapment or perforation is considerable with rotational atherectomy (RA). Halfway RA is a novel strategy, in which an operator does not advance the burr to the end of a continuous calcified lesion, and performs ballo...

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Main Authors: Kenichi Sakakura, Yousuke Taniguchi, Kei Yamamoto, Hiroshi Wada, Shin-Ichi Momomura, Hideo Fujita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219289