ISSN:
1432-1920
Keywords:
Catheterization complications
;
Angiographic complications
;
Catheters
;
Guidewires
;
Cerebral angiography
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary Techniques for uncoiling knots formed in catheters during angiography have been the subject of several previous reports. A new technique for catheter unknotting is presented, based on the use of graded flexibility guidewires. The application of this graded taper method appears particularly pertinent to uncoiling softer, narrow-caliber, adversely looped catheters. Moreover, the mechanisms of knot uncoiling in the previous reports are reassessed and their imprecisions corrected.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00336683
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