GE Healthcare StentViz - Manual (Page 5)

The positioning of the stent being
considered optimal, it is deployed
during 30s at 16 atm and a new
StentViz processing is launched.
It allows to depict the overlap between
the 2 stents and the regularity of
the deployment.
No further inflation is needed.
A final kissing is applied at the bifurcation
level and a last StentViz allows to assess
an optimal strut opening at the level of
the side branch.
Successful angioplasty of proximal
LAD and 2nd diagonal bifurcation using
2 Cypher stents is demonstrated.
During this case, StentViz was useful
for the assessment of
• the stent deformation vs the first
bifurcation before the first kissing.
• the optimal placement of the 2nd
stent vs the 1st stent, before its
deployment
• the deployment of the 2nd stent
and its overlap with the 1st stent.
• the 1st stent deployment after the
final kissing.
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