Improving the deliverability of PCI catheters.
A recent study assessing views of interventional cardiologists on the performance of catheters used in angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), indicates that there is a need for improvement in the catheter. The particular areas of improvement are reviewed here with some hypotube shaft solutions that promise to improve catheter deliverability.
D017130:Angioplasty; D002404:Catheterization; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States