Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusion after Coronary Perforation

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Pre-stent implantation arteriography illustration and final angiographic result. (a) Lesion in the middle segment of the RCA, with signs of dissection and a microchannel filling the distal segment of the artery. Blue arrow: Cross-section showing true lumen (A) and false lumen (B). Intravascular ultrasound demarcated false lumen (FL) true lumen (TL) and wire (arrow). (b) Purple arrow: proximal segment of the stent in the true lumen (A). Blue arrow: distal segment of the stent in the false lumen (B). (c) Final angiographic result (A) and illustration (B), following successful angioplasty with stent implantation.

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