Sheaths, catheters, and wires may not be as interesting as stents or atherectomy, but these basics are the foundation for successful treatment in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI). Without ...

Access with a larger transseptal sheath and ablation with more catheter tip pressure often raise safety concerns for the interventionalist during the procedure. In complications, there is no higher ...

With the advent of stiffened torqueable guidewires, angled and hydrophilic-coated catheters, braided sheaths, and low-profile systems, crossing the aortic bifurcation or “getting up and over” can ...

Chronic indwelling central venous catheters can result in formation of fibrin sheaths increasing risk of occlusion, thrombosis and infection. Endovascular infection of right-sided heart structures ...

Four aspiration catheters with increasing diameter were evaluated: ACE 60 and 64 (Penumbra), SOFIA Plus (MicroVention), and Millipede 088 (Perfuze). An 80 cm Super Arrow-Flex (Teleflex, Wayne, PA, USA ...

but the incidence of fibrin sheath in the femoral vein were the lowest (both p<0.01). The incidence of malpositioned or kinked catheters was highest in the femoral vein (p<0.01 for catheter-days; ...

After achieving a stable guiding sheath position within the proximal cervical carotid artery, a hypercompliant balloon catheter was manipulated beyond the tortuous cervical internal carotid segment ...

[21] Fibrin begins to build up on the catheter soon after insertion, sometimes developing into a sheath that may completely encase the catheter. In this case, infusions still may be possible ...

After the evaluation of the shunt point, occluded areas were recanalised via the femoral vein with a quadriaxial catheter system using a 6-Fr guiding sheath, 6-Fr guiding catheter, 4.2-Fr catheter and ...

catheter sheath retardance and non-uniform rotational distortion (NURD). This processing pipeline overcomes these effects by capitalizing on the catheter sheath as a static "guide-star" to allow for ...