Dardas Petros S, Mezilis Nikos, Ninios Vlasis, Tsikaderis Dimitrios, Theofilogiannakos Efstratios K
Cardiology Department, Thessaloniki Heart Institute, St Luke's Hospital, Evrivias 2, 54250 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Heart Vessels. 2012 Sep;27(5):535-40. doi: 10.1007/s00380-011-0181-x. Epub 2011 Aug 25.
Recently, a new interventional guide catheter, the GuideLiner™ catheter, was introduced into the market as a strategy for tackling the problem of stent delivery failure. We implemented this simplified child-in-mother technique in a series of 16 challenging coronary interventions. Balloon and stent delivery was successfully achieved in all cases and the device was both simple to deploy and remove. Apart from two cases of vessel dissection that were managed successfully with stent implantation, no other serious procedural complications were reported.