Usefulness of conquest guidewire for retrieval of an entrapped rotablator burr
β Scribed by Masayuki Hyogo; Naoto Inoue; Reo Nakamura; Takaomi Tokura; Akiko Matsuo; Keiji Inoue; Tetsuya Tanaka; Hiroshi Fujita
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
We experienced an entrapped rotablator burr that could not be retrieved even by deep seating of the guiding catheter. We successfully retrieved the burr by balloon inflation after the tapered tip of a Conquest wire managed to penetrate the quite hard plaque and pass through the outer lumen of the burr. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2004;63:469β472. Β© 2004 WileyβLiss, Inc.
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