Potential advantages of the GuideLiner^® catheter: insights from optical coherence tomography

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• 作者：Satoru Mitomo ; Toru Naganuma…
• 关键词：Percutaneous coronary intervention ; Optical coherence tomography ; Tortuous vessel and angulated bifurcation ; GuidLiner® catheter
• 刊名：Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：1
• 页码：56-61
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• 刊物主题：Cardiology; Interventional Radiology;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1868-4297
• 卷排序：32

文摘

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been reported as promising not only for the evaluation of lesion morphology, but also for better clinical outcomes; however, in some cases with severe vessel tortuosity or angulated bifurcation, it is difficult to advance an intravascular imaging catheter. We report a case in which a GuideLiner® catheter facilitated obtaining better angiographic and OCT images with the sub-selective injection of minimal contrast medium, even in a case with a tortuous vessel or angulated bifurcation. Furthermore, OCT assessment of a vessel through the catheter may be other potential advantage of this device.