Movable core guide wire: evaluation of improved model.
Six commercially available movable core guide wires were compared with each other and with a new design in glass models simulating tortuous vessels. The results demonstrate a wide variability in performance of the commercially available wires and the superiority of the new design.
D000792:Angiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001808:Blood Vessels; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008961:Models, Structural