Simple aspiration with balloon catheter technique (simple ABC technique) against proximal internal carotid artery occlusion in cases of cardiogenic cerebral embolism.

Conclusion The simple ABC technique is useful to deal with a large amount of thrombus, shortens procedure time, enables less invasive thrombectomy, and can shift immediately to subsequent procedures such as delivering a stent retriever or ADAPT. PMID: 29378450 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Interventional Neuroradiology - February 1, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Interv Neuroradiol Source Type: research