[A new vascular shunt catheter (author's transl)]

For over 10 years, many authors have attempted to obtain vascular exclusion by intubation with rigid catheters: rubber tube, Argyle is catheter, special catheters with 1, 2 or several full balloons. Owing to this regidity, introduction is difficult and this calibre of the catheter is limited, with reduction of the flow. The authors have developed a supple multitoric catheter which takes on its final form only at the desired site, at the time of inflation.