A novel 0.010-inch guidewire for crossing jailed sidebranches

Complete occlusion of a side branch sometimes occurs due to a jailed-stent during treatment of bifurcation lesions. In this report, we describe a novel 0.010-inch coronary guidewire (Decillion) that is effective for crossing a completely occluded side branch through the jailed-stent strut, whereas another standard 0.014-inch guidewire was unable to cross the same lesion. This novel 0.010-inch guidewire may be useful for crossing of completely occluded side branches that are difficult to cross through the stent strut after stent implantation.