Usefulness of grasping a guiding catheter with a loop-snare wire for stent placement into the vertebrobasilar artery.
In cases in which the subclavian artery is severely tortuous or branches with an extremely angulated origin, stent placement in the vertebrobasilar artery on the approach from the femoral artery is often technically difficult. We report two cases in which a stent placement procedure for the vertebrobasilar artery was successfully performed by grasping a guiding catheter with a loop-snare wire. This technique is useful for tortuous arteries or arteries branching with an extremely angulated origin.
Yoneda
Kenji
K
Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan. yoneda_ken@rad.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Matsui
Osamu
O
Sanada
Junichiro
J
Kusanagi
Miho
M
Okamoto
Yoshikazu
Y
Kida
Shinya
S
D000368:Aged; D001027:Aortography; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002404:Catheterization; D004867:Equipment Design; D018737:Hand Strength; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D014717:Vertigo / Q000209:etiology