Abstract

FURUKAWA, Murillo K. et al. Use of tandem stents for treatment of helicoidal dissection of the right coronary artery. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. [online]. 2000, vol.74, n.6, pp. 516-518. ISSN 0066-782X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0066-782X2000000600004.

Coronary dissection occurs frequently and in several degrees during coronary angioplasty, which is one of the mechanisms for increasing the lumen diameter of a vessel. However the length of the dissection may affect the procedure, becoming the most frequent cause of total occlusion after coronary angioplasty. We report here a case of extensive dissection that occurred during the coronary angioplasty of a focused lesion, which we treated with two long stents.