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Parallel Guidewire Angioplasty

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Some stenotic lesions are extremely resistant to dilataion. Techniques used to "cut" the lesion and render it more amenable to treatment have been described to use in these instances. This chapter discusses one such technique.

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  1. Lifetime Vascular Access, University of Texas Medical Branch, 5135 Holly Terrace, Houston, TX, 77056, USA

    Gerald A. Beathard MD, PhD

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  1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Alexander S. Yevzlin

  2. Department of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Seton Hall-Hackensack-Meridian School of Medicine, Neptune, New Jersey, USA

    Arif Asif

  3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Robert R. Redfield III

  4. University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, Texas, USA

    Gerald A. Beathard

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Beathard, G.A. (2017). Parallel Guidewire Angioplasty. In: Yevzlin, A., Asif , A., Redfield III, R., Beathard, G. (eds) Dialysis Access Cases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57500-1_42

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