Publication Date
4-1-2020
Journal
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-17-6350
PMID
32603464
Publication Date(s)
April 2020
Language
English
PMCID
PMC7328076
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
6-17-2020
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Angioplasty, balloon, coronary/instrumentation; coronary stenosis/therapy; equipment design; feasibility studies; occupational exposure/prevention & control; percutaneous coronary intervention/methods; robotics/methods; treatment outcome
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention can reduce the exposure of interventional cardiologists to radiation and minimize the risk of occupational orthopedic injuries from wearing heavy protective aprons. The PRECISE (Percutaneous Robotically-Enhanced Coronary Intervention) study showed the efficacy and safety of robotic-assisted procedures for relatively low-risk lesions in single coronary arteries. Several reports have described robotic-assisted treatment of complex high-risk lesions, mostly through the transfemoral approach. We report 4 cases of patients in whom we used the transradial approach to treat complex lesions in the left anterior descending coronary artery with bifurcation balloon angioplasty reconstruction (2 cases), in the ostium of the first diagonal branch, and in the right coronary artery.