title: The use of the Simmons "Sidewinder" catheter in percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the renal arteries.
abstract: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the renal arteries is a simple procedure that promises to significantly change the patterns of treatment for renovascular hypertension. This paper reports a technique which utilizes the Simmons "sidewinder" catheter for predilatation of a renal artery stenosis or occlusion, and allows subsequent passage of a Grüntzig balloon dilatation catheter in selected difficult cases.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004106:Dilatation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*