title: Double-guide-wire access through a single 6-F vascular sheath.
abstract: Three techniques are described that employ double-guide-wire access through a single vascular sheath in the common femoral artery. One technique provides arterial side branch protection during balloon angioplasty of stenotic vascular branch points. Another maintains guide wire access within a dilated renal artery while postangioplasty aortography is performed. A third technique achieves superficial femoral artery access during antegrade femoral artery puncture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 20007.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Teitelbaum
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Barth
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging