Guidewires

01/01/2020

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

Filip Oleszak ;

Maheedhar Gedela , MD;

Adam T. Stys , MD, FACC;

Jeffrey Wilson , MD;

Tomasz P. Stys , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

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

Zaheed Tai , MD, DO, FACC, FSCAI;

Orlando Marrero , RCIS, MBA;

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

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

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