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Use of the Heartrail II catheter as a distal stent delivery device; an extended case series
Author(s) -
Mamas A. Mamas,
Jonas Eichhöfer,
Cara Hendry,
Magdi ElOmar,
Bernard Clarke,
Ludwig Neyses,
Farzin FathOrdoubadi,
Doug Fraser
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
eurointervention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.592
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1969-6213
pISSN - 1774-024X
DOI - 10.4244/eijv5i2a41
Subject(s) - medicine , catheter , stent , intubation , conventional pci , circumflex , surgery , delivery system , radiology , cardiology , artery , biomedical engineering , myocardial infarction
The Terumo Heartrail catheter (Terumo Corp., Tokyo, Japan) allows extra deep catheter intubation of coronary vessels and has been shown to be useful in CTO lesions. The aim of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of using the Heartrail II catheter as a distal stent delivery system in PCI following failure of conventional techniques.

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