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Magnetically-Assisted Remote Controlled Microcatheter Tip Deflection under Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Published on: April 4, 2013
Miniature angled sub-selective guiding catheter aids in placing guidewire through difficult anatomy
1Department of Cardiology, St. Joseph Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
A method for fabricating and using a "mini" guiding catheter is presented. Use of the mini guiding catheter provides the back up support necessary to enable a guidewire to traverse difficult anatomy. Use of this device to cross a lesion in an acutely angulated circumflex artery is presented.

