Letter to the EditorBalloon-assisted tracking of guide catheter dealing with radial artery perforation and subclavian loop during percutaneous coronary intervention by transradial approach☆
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Characterization of radial artery perforation patterns using optical coherence tomography
2024, Cardiovascular Revascularization MedicineRadial artery perforation treated with balloon tracking and guide catheter tamponade – A case series
2016, Cardiovascular Revascularization MedicineCitation Excerpt :BAT has previously been described in negotiating tortuous radial arteries and radial artery spasm [3]. There is also a case report of its use in a small radial perforation by the original team to perform BAT [8]. Our larger case series builds on this experience and demonstrates that BAT following radial artery perforation is a useful additional technique in allowing the advance of a large guiding catheter across the perforated radial segment.
Combining balloon-assisted tracking and sheathless guiding catheter: Unloosening the Gordian knot
2015, Cardiovascular Revascularization MedicineCitation Excerpt :A “drive-by” brachial angiography was performed while the guiding catheter was pulled back at the end of the procedure, showing absence of perforation and the straightening of the loop (Fig. 1H). BAT is a recently described technique, designed to help tracking a guide catheter in demanding situations, and several reports have been published in which this simple trick has allowed successful completion of complex TRA procedures without perforation and dissection [10–14]. The main pathophysiologic point behind the BAT is the avoidance of the so-called “razor” effect, exerted by the sharp tip of diagnostic or guiding catheters over the arterial wall.
Impassable brachiocephalic tortuosity in right transradial access: Overcoming the curves with the pigtail catheter
2015, International Journal of CardiologyDouble perforation of an anomalous radial artery tackled with balloon-assisted tracking and guide catheter tamponade
2018, Hellenic Journal of CardiologyBalloon-Assisted Tracking: A Solution to Severe Subclavian Tortuosity Encountered during Transradial Primary PCI
2016, International Journal of Angiology
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