Use of the venture wire control catheter for the treatment of coronary artery chronic total occlusions
โ Scribed by Jose Miguel Iturbe; Abdul-Rahman R. Abdel-Karim; Vijay N. Raja; Bavana V. Rangan; Subhash Banerjee; Emmanouil S. Brilakis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 222 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for total occlusions frequently fails, because the guidewire fails to pass the occlusion. With the use of the Probe exchange catheter (PEC), however, stiffness of the guidewire is increased and a higher pushability is obtained in order to manipul
## Abstract We report two cases of flush chronic total occlusion due to inโstent restenosis, in which percutaneous coronary intervention attempts via overโtheโwire balloons and microcatheters failed to cross the lesion. Using the Ventureยฎ catheter for support and the Stingrayยฎ guidewire for enhance