Barend van Zadelhoff Jul 20, 2013:

You mean as opposed to the left posterolateral from the circumflex artery?

Your suggestion would imply 'posterolateraal rechts' in Dutch and then written as 'PLR'
Not very likely, would have been 'posterolaterale tak rechts' or 'rechter posterolaterale tak.

Anyway, in either case it would refer to the posterolateral branch/ramus from the RCA

I think they used the English acronym, I have seen this before in many PCI reports, often English acronyms are used rather than Dutch ones
You also mentioned 'rewiring' was written in English

For English acronyms in Dutch see also this abbreviation list:

LAD - Left anterior descending coronary artery. Zie RDA.

PL-tak - posterolaterale tak. Vertakking van de rechter coronair arterie of circumflex.
In het laatste geval spreekt men vaak van de PLCX.

Vaak splitst de RCA in een posterolaterale tak (PL-tak) en de ramus descendens posterior (RDP).

http://tinyurl.com/lcxoxup

https://www.lumc.nl/rep/2040/att/907080341132143.pdf

ebell (asker) Jul 20, 2013:

Since the PCI is in the right coronary artery, perhaps the 'R' stands for 'rechts'?

ebell (asker) Jul 20, 2013:

Dutch to English Yes, the Dutch text has used the English word 'rewiring'. I had thought of posterolateral branch, but thought it was odd that the ramus would come at the end when it would normally come first in Dutch.

Barend van Zadelhoff Jul 20, 2013:

see above Dutch to English

Apart from this, ebell always asks Dutch to English questions :-)

philgoddard Jul 20, 2013:

What language pair is this? Dutch to English, English to Dutch, or English to English?

Barend van Zadelhoff Jul 20, 2013:

Definition of the coronary tree segments

RCA branches:

1 RCA proximal
2 RCA mid
3 RCA distal
4 Posterior descending artery
16 Posterolateral branch from RCA
16a Posterolateral branch from RCA
16b Posterolateral branch from RCA
16c Posterolateral branch from RCA

See definitions on page 2 and image on page 3 : right dominance

http://tinyurl.com/mnt2fba

Possibly they refer to the Posterior Lateral Branch

They may have used 'Ramus' rather than Branch.

Posterolateral Ramus - PLR

rewiring the PLR

can you use this?

>**Aorta-D-PLCX-PLR**.
It remains a bit unclear whether 'D' stands for 'descendens' or
'diagonal'; PLCX= posterolateral (of) circumflex branch; PLR is probably
Posterolateral ramus

http://tinyurl.com/mr3fstk