Use of a branch wire to anchor stents for exact placement proximal to bifurcation stents: The reverse Szabo technique

This report describes a technique for correct positioning of a stent proximal to a bifurcation lesion treated with V-stents. A second wire passed through the first cell of a stent, the opposite end of the anchor wire technique as first described by Szabo et al, facilitated precise stent placement and eliminated erroneous positioning inside or outside the treated bifurcation lesion. (C) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.