title: Roadmap guidance for the safer deployment of an arterial closure device.
abstract: Arterial closure devices reduce the time to hemostasis, ambulation, and discharge after percutaneous arterial catheterization, but there is an increased risk of arterial occlusive complications compared with manual compression. As a step toward the elimination of this risk, the authors describe a technique where the movement of a balloon-tipped vessel locator and its final position at the site of closure mechanism deployment are monitored with roadmap fluoroscopic imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA. eric.k.hoffer@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Eric K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Hoffer
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gemery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult