Plastic-coated guide wire for hepatic arteriography.
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 166 (2) , 545-546
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.166.2.3336732
Abstract
A guide wire made of a superelastic alloy coated with hydrophilic polymer has been developed for superselective catheterization in hepatic arteriography. In this study, the new wire was tested in 15 patients and a conventional spring wire was used in 25. Catheterization of the proper or more peripheral hepatic arteries was successful in 93.3% of cases in which the new wire was used versus 76.0% in which the conventional spring wire was used. Moreover, the frequency of complications, such as spasm and subintimal injury, was reduced from 28.0% to 6.7%.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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