Kissing Stenting Technique to Treat the Short Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

- Operator : Eberhard Grube

Kissing Stenting Technique to Treat the Short Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
- Operator: Eberhard Grube, MD

A 54-year-old gentleman was admitted with recurrent resting chest pain. He had hyperlipidemia. His ECG and cardiac enzyme were within normal limit. Echocardiogram showed a LVEF 62% without regional wall motion abnomality.

Baseline coronary angiogram

A right coronary angiogram showed near normal coronary artery. However, a left coronary angiogram showed the short left main coronary artery with haziness. ( Movie 1)

Procedure

A 8 Fr JL 3.5 with side-hole guiding catheter was engaged into left coronary artery. The LAD and LCX were crossed with 0.014¡± Floppy BMW guidewire firstly. The left main to LAD lesion and LCX were sequentially predilated with a 3.0*15 mm Dura Star balloon. (Figure 1, Figure 2) A 3.0*15 mm Xience V stent and 3.0*15 mm Xience V stent were deployed using kissing stent technique at LM. (Figure 3) After stent deployment, adjunctive balloon dilatation using kissing balloon technique was applied with Dura Star 3.0*15 at LAD and Dura Star 3.5*15 at LCX. Later, Dura Star 3.5*15 at LM to LAD was inflated. (Figure 4) As underexpansion was noted, kissing balloon technique using Quantum 3.0*15 at LAD and Dura Star 3.0*15 at LCX was applied again. (Figure 5) Final angiogram showed a good result. ( Movie 2)

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