New technique for exchanging an “over‐the‐wire” balloon dilatation catheter

Abstract

We describe here an indigenous technique of "over-the-wire" balloon exchanges that avoids use of an extension guidewire.

Use of a wire extender during neuroprotected vertebral artery angioplasty and stenting

“…Since the wire will inevitably advance further to a variable degree, most operators would not choose this technique owing to the complication potential of losing the wire inside the patient. Wire exchanges in the coronary endovascular literature have been described when a guide wire has insufficient length for delivery of a stent, but this still leaves the proximal end of the original guide wire unattended 8. Feiring et al 9 described the Jet extraction method of stent catheter placement over short guide wires.…”