title: Distal stent delivery with Guideliner catheter: first in man experience.
abstract: Failure to deliver stents is one of the commonest causes of procedural failure in contemporary PCI practice. We describe successful use of the Guideliner catheter, the first purpose designed FDA and CE marked device delivery catheter in 13 complex cases in native coronary vessels and bypass grafts performed via the radial route to enable distal stent delivery following failure of conventional techniques. We discuss how the Guideliner catheter may be used to facilitate difficult radial cases.
authors.affiliation: Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mamas A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mamas
authors.forename: Farzin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fath-Ordoubadi
authors.forename: Douglas G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Fraser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017534:Radial Artery; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome