Successful treatment of chronic total peripheral occlusions that failed conventional techniques using the stiff backend of the glidewire™

✍ Scribed by Kjellgren, Olle ;Feld, Steven ;Loyd, Dan ;Schroth, George ;Anderson, H. Vernon ;Smalling, Richard W.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 405 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810360418

✦ Synopsis

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'" 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.