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- Title
The outback catheter: a new device for true lumen re-entry after dissection during recanalization of arterial occlusions.
- Authors
Hausegger, Klaus A.; Georgieva, Borjana; Portugaller, Horst; Tauss, Josef; Stark, Gerhard
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To report the initial experience with a new catheter system (The Outback catheter) designed to allow fluoroscopically controlled re-entry of the true arterial lumen after subintimal guidewire passage during recanalization procedures of arterial occlusions.<bold>Methods: </bold>The catheter was used in 10 patients with intermittent claudication caused by chronic segmental occlusions of the superficial femoral or popliteal arteries. In all patients, conventional guidewire recanalization had failed.<bold>Results: </bold>In 8 patients, successful true lumen re-entry was achieved with the Outback catheter. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was successfully performed in these patients without complications. Two technical failures occurred in heavily calcified arteries.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The Outback catheter was safe and effective when used in complicated recanalization procedures in the superficial femoral and popliteal artery and the tibial trunk.
- Subjects
ARTERIAL occlusions; ARTERIAL diseases; ARTERIAL dilatation; VASCULAR surgery; ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSLUMINAL angioplasty
- Publication
CardioVascular & Interventional Radiology, 2004, Vol 27, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0174-1551
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00270-003-0025-x