Complication of coronary arteriography

✍ Scribed by Kern, Morton J.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 84 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810230119

✦ Synopsis

Letters to the Editor

Complication of

present, vessel injury is distinctly rare. We, as many other laboratories, do not ever recommend passing a straight-tipped catheter up any vessel without a leading soft tip guidewire. Perhaps the authors could comment.

Coronary Arteriography TO THE EDITOR

We read the report of Dr. Raphael and Dr. Donaldson regarding the problem of passing catheters up iliac arteries without leading guidewires [ 11. We were puzzled as to why the clinicians used a technique without standard J tipped safety guidewires, as is customary in this country. This type of occurrence is exactly why guidewires Were developed. If careful observation of the guidewire passage is