Successful excimer laser coronary atherectomy after failed rotational atherectomy in a balloon-uncrossable chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery
Students’ Scientific Group of Modern Cardiac Therapy, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
Clinical Department of Interventional Cardiology, St. John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland
Department of Interventional Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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