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Technique for guiding catheter exchange during coronary angioplasty while maintaining guidewire access across a
C M Newton1, S A Lewis, G W Vetrovec
1Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This case report describes a technique for guiding catheter exchange while angioplasty extended guidewire access is maintained across a coronary artery stenosis with a 245-cm-0.035-in.-long wire in the aorta to exchange for a more favorable guiding catheter. The indications, technique, and outcome of a case are described; it illustrates the usefulness of maintaining angioplasty guidewire access in a difficult-to-cross coronary stenosis.