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Aspiration catheter for percutaneous thrombectomy: clinical results
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Technical University of Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany.
Radiology
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
The clinical application of an aspiration thrombectomy system is presented. The system consists of a 7-F Teflon catheter with a rotating coaxial propeller-tipped wire. Thrombectomy was successful in treating occlusion of two femoropopliteal arteries and one hemodialysis implant but was not completely successful in a draining shunt vein. Preliminary results are encouraging; mechanical thrombectomy may offer an alternative to local lysis therapy.