Usefulness of GuideLiner Catheter during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Difficult to Cross Complex Lesions due to Calcification and Tortuosity Pages 96-104

Sridhar Kasturi1, Vinoth Kumar Vilvanathan1, Shiva Kumar Bandimida1, Tulsee Sitapara2 and Ashok Thakkar2

1Department of Cardiology, Sunshine Heart Institute, Secunderabad, – 500003, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Department of Clinical Trials, Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Surat – 395 004, Gujarat, India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12970/2311-052X.2014.02.03.1

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Abstract: Failure of stent delivery during percutaneous coronary intervention is one of the common causes of procedural failure. The GuideLiner catheter is a novel device with rapid exchange characteristic that ease the device delivery in deep vessel. We are reporting four cases on the usefulness of the GuideLiner catheter during percutaneous coronary intervention to enable stenting in complex, calcified, tortuous or distal lesions.

Keywords: GuideLiner catheter, mother and child catheter, tortuous lesions, left anterior descending artery, right coronary artery, percutaneous coronary intervention. Read more