title: Retrieval of migrated coils with stent retrievers: an animal study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Coil migration is a potentially serious complication of endovascular aneurysm treatment. The aim of the study was to systematically investigate the effectiveness of coil retrieval with a stent retriever in an animal model.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 148 coils of various types and sizes were placed into arteries of varying diameters in a porcine in vivo model. Coil retrieval was performed by placing a Trevo ProVue stent retriever over the coil and trying to trap a part of the platinum coil within the stent mesh by advancing the microcatheter over the stent or simply by retrieving the stent without trying to trap the coil by advancing the microcatheter.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Coil retrieval was successful in 101 of 102 cases (99%), in which trapping of the coil within the stent retriever by advancing the microcathter was applied. When we only pulled back the stent without trapping the coil, retrieval was successful in only 5 of 46 cases (11%). Coil type, coil structure (2D versus 3D), actual coil shape in the affected vessel, investigator experience, aspiration, coil localization, and vessel diameter had no significant influence on retrieval outcome. There was no case of vessel perforation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Retrieval of migrated platinum coils with a stent retriever is an effective treatment option for migrated coils when the correct technique is applied.
authors: From the Department of Neuroradiology (O.N., R.P., M.-A.B., M.W.) Medical Imaging Physics (O.N.), Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Nikoubashman
authors: From the Department of Neuroradiology (O.N., R.P., M.-A.B., M.W.).
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Pjontek
authors: From the Department of Neuroradiology (O.N., R.P., M.-A.B., M.W.).
authors: M-A
authors: MA
authors: Brockmann
authors: Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery (R.T.), University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Tolba
authors: From the Department of Neuroradiology (O.N., R.P., M.-A.B., M.W.) mwiesmann@ukaachen.de.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Wiesmann
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000628:therapy*; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000628:therapy*; D010984:Platinum; D015607:Stents; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D010984:Platinum