Emergency coronary angioplasty with stenting using Cordis® diagnostic coronary catheters when there is difficulty in engaging guide catheters and bench evaluation of diagnostic and guide catheters.

diagnostic coronary catheters when there is difficulty in engaging guide catheters and bench evaluation of diagnostic and guide catheters

[Coronary angiography with 4 f catheters by the radial: minimally invasive catheterization].

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Experience with 4 F catheters in cardiac catheterization is limited. These devices appear to be more suitable for the radial artery approach than conventional 6 F catheters. METHODS We analyze our preliminary experience with diagnostic catheterization of the radial artery with 4 F catheters. Angiographic images were evaluated using a predefined scale (1. poor; 2. a...

Successful Percutaneous Coronary Interventionin a Patient with Dextrocardia and Situs Inversus-a case report

Dextrocardia is a rare congenital anomaly of development characterized by a mirrorimage position of the heart. Unlike dextrocardia with situs solitus or ambiguus, the coincidence of congenital heart disease is relatively low among dextrocardic patients with situs inversus. However, patients with dextrocardia may suffer from coronary heart disease as do people with normally positioned hearts. Fe...

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: catheter technology and procedural guidelines.

In the April issue of the British Heart Journal de Feyter et al from the Thoraxcenter described their angioplasty experience with the monorail technique in 1000 patients.' The results were excellent with success in 920O of cases and major complications in only 3.30O* They concluded that the monorail technique is safe and effective but, in the absence of a randomised trial, were careful to avoid...

Feasibility of virtual 3-Fr percutaneous coronary intervention using standard guiding catheters

INTRODUCTION Recent studies have reported the efficacy of sheathless percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using hydrophilic-coated 5-Fr guiding catheters that are one to two Fr sizes smaller in diameter than the corresponding introducer sheath (virtual 3-Fr PCI). However, the limited number of shapes of hydrophilic-coated guiding catheters occasionally makes them difficult to engage and con...