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Guidewire Properties and Selection

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The cornerstone to a successful percutaneous coronary intervention involves the appropriate selection of a coronary guidewire with inherent properties designed to support and navigate coronary devices through various coronary anatomies. The basic construct of the coronary guidewire has the following functions:

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  1. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave Levy Place, Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Christopher J. Varughese MD, Anitha Rajamanickam MD & Samin K. Sharma MD, FACC

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  1. Christopher J. Varughese MD
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Correspondence to Samin K. Sharma MD, FACC .

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  1. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Annapoorna Kini

  2. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Samin Sharma

  3. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Jagat Narula

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Varughese, C.J., Rajamanickam, A., Sharma, S.K. (2014). Guidewire Properties and Selection. In: Kini, A., Sharma, S., Narula, J. (eds) Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6581-1_8

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