Intravascular lithotripsy: A novel option for severe calcification of coronary artery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe coronary artery calcification is associated with low success rate of interventional operation, perioperative adverse cardiac events, and poor prognosis, which is a major problem faced by operators. The existing therapy methods all have inherent limitations, such as unsatisfactory balloon crossability, inadequate balloon dilation, and so on. The emergence of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) has brought the dawn of the treatment of calcified lesions by using unfocused acoustic pressure waves to fracture calcification in situ. And IVL is the only technology capable of targeting deep calcification.

Hypothesis

IVL may have great clinical application values and potential prospects.

Method

Based on the existing clinical evidence of IVL and traditional treatm

SUBMITTER: Lv H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826240 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature