TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful treatment of chronic total peripheral occlusions that failed conventional techniques using the stiff backend of the glidewire™
AU - Kjellgren, Olle
AU - Feld, Steven
AU - Loyd, Dan
AU - Schroth, George
AU - Anderson, H. Vernon
AU - Smalling, Richard W.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - The vast majority of failures of transcatheter interventions in patients with peripheral vascular disease are due to inability to cross the lesion with a guidewire. Although the use of the Glidewire(TM) has clearly improved the success rate, failures with especially chronic total occlusions still occur. We describe a new technique using the very stiff backend of the Glidewire, which we have found very successful, when conventional techniques fail in crossing highly resistant lesions.
AB - The vast majority of failures of transcatheter interventions in patients with peripheral vascular disease are due to inability to cross the lesion with a guidewire. Although the use of the Glidewire(TM) has clearly improved the success rate, failures with especially chronic total occlusions still occur. We describe a new technique using the very stiff backend of the Glidewire, which we have found very successful, when conventional techniques fail in crossing highly resistant lesions.
KW - guidewire
KW - percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
KW - peripheral vascular disease
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U2 - 10.1002/ccd.1810360418
DO - 10.1002/ccd.1810360418
M3 - Article
C2 - 8719392
AN - SCOPUS:0029559284
VL - 36
SP - 360
EP - 363
JO - Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
JF - Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
SN - 0098-6569
IS - 4
ER -