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Calcific Lesion Interventions

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Procedural inability to deploy stents was shown to be more frequent in patients with calcified lesions than in those with noncalcified lesions (8.2 % vs 1.8 %, respectively) [1, 2]. Optimal stent delivery and apposition in these calcified lesions mandate adequate debulking.

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  1. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave Levy Place, Madison Avenue, New York, 10029, NY, USA

    Anitha Rajamanickam MD & Samin K. Sharma MD, FACC

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  1. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Annapoorna Kini

  2. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Samin Sharma

  3. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Jagat Narula

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Rajamanickam, A., Sharma, S.K. (2014). Calcific Lesion Interventions. In: Kini, A., Sharma, S., Narula, J. (eds) Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6581-1_22

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