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Date: Jul 8, 2010

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hello dr z please help thanks,
Coronary artery anatomy showed left main normal, left anterior descending has mild diffuse disease. Left circumflex had mild diffuse disease. Right coronary artery, proximal 20% stenosis. Left ventriculogram: EF of 55%. LVEDP 9. A 3DRC catheter was used to take a picture of the left common iliac selectively with runoff, and it showed left common iliac mild disease, left external iliac with mild disease, left interior iliac mild disease, left common femoral mild disease, left superficial femoral artery with mild disease. The 3DRC catheter was pulled to the right common iliac, the right external iliac, and this showed right common iliac mild diffuse disease, right external iliac mild disease, right common femoral mild disease and right superficial femoral artery with mild diffuse disease. Hemostasis was by manual compression.

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