GuideLiner ™ as guide catheter extension for the unreachable mammary bypass graft

We present a case of a patient undergoing PCI of a right internal mammary artery (RIMA) graft via TR access in whom the graft could not be engaged with any guiding catheter. Using a balloon tracking technique over a guidewire, a GuideLiner was placed as an extension of the guiding catheter and facilitated TR‐PCI by overcoming technical challenges associated with difficult anatomy.

Source: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions - March 9, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Alec Vishnevsky, Michael P. Savage, David L. Fischman Tags: CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Source Type: research