Successful removal of an entrapped and kinked catheter during right transradial cardiac catheterization by snaring and unwinding the catheter via femoral access

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 202.e1-202.e3

  Khoubyari, Rostam ^a,b   Arsanjani, Reza ^b,c   Habibzadeh, Mohammad Reza ^b,c   Echeverri, Jose ^c   Movahed, Mohammad Reza ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Catheterization; Complications; Entrapped catheter; Kink catheters; Radial artery; Retrieval; Snaring; Transradial

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; VERAPAMIL;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICES; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUOROSCOPY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 84861665349     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: 18780938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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