Guidewires

01/01/2020

CLD talks with Samin K. Sharma, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Clinical and Interventional Cardiology; President, Mount Sinai Heart Network; Dean of International Clinical Affiliations; Anandi Lal Sharma Professor of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, New York.

CLD talks with Samin K. Sharma, MD, F...

Our policy at Mount Sinai Hospital is that for every percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), we open the Runthrough NS. It is at 100% use in our interventions.

Our policy at Mount Sinai...

01/01/2020

Cath Lab Digest

Case & Technique

How to Wire a Complex Coronary Trifurcation: A Novel Guidewire Contrast Surfing Technique

04/03/2018

Adam Stys¹, MD, Filip Oleszak², Maheedhar Gedela³, MD, Jeffrey Wilson³, MD, Tomasz Stys¹, MD

Adam Stys1, MD, Filip Oleszak2, Mahee...

Unfavorable coronary anatomy, especially involving bifurcations, can preclude guidewire passage even when there is flow distal to the stenosis.1

Unfavorable coronary anatomy,...

04/03/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Specialty Microcatheters to Facilitate Antegrade Crossing for CTO Revascularization

05/08/2016

Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Tampa, Florida, Zaheed Tai, DO, FACC, FSCAI, Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Florida

Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Tampa, Fl...

The current hybrid algorithm approach to CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) uses a combination of antegrade and retrograde techniques to facilitate wire crossing and procedural success. In the early stages of adopting this approach,...

The current hybrid algorithm...

05/08/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Editor's Corner

The GlideWire Supremacy: 20 Years and Counting

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado, MD

The idea for this editorial emerged in my mind while reviewing the article “A Comparison of Interventional Guidewires in a Canine Model” by Huang et al. The authors set out to test three different wires in the setting of an in vivo...

The idea for this editorial...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management

Original Research

A Comparison of Interventional Guidewires in a Canine Model

09/05/2008

Huang et al.

Guidewires are a fundamental component of any cardiac and vascular interventional procedure. These interventions may include coronary angioplasty, carotid stenting, endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR), superficial femoral artery (SFA)...

Guidewires are a fundamental...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management