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.
Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan. yoneda_ken@rad.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Kenji
K
Yoneda
Osamu
O
Matsui
Junichiro
J
Sanada
Miho
M
Kusanagi
Yoshikazu
Y
Okamoto
Shinya
S
Kida
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