Analyzing coronary bifurcation structures: Towards personalized balloon angioplasty and stent deployment

Abstract

Treating coronary artery disease in bifurcation lesions presents many practical challenges. Developing bifurcation specific devices and procedures may improve results. In order to further understand angiographic bifurcation features, a set of healthy coronary artery bifurcations were measured and evaluated in order to develop models to predict carina diameter and tapering length for a new balloon forming system