Other coronary interventions

The snare technique is often used for the retrieval in cases of balloon shaft fracture, but involves several decisions and technical steps. Discover more about this technique here…

Balloon trapping technique, which can be challenging is explained here.

Balloon trapping technique, which can be challenging is explained here.

Often a favoured technique especially in the in the case of balloon shaft fracture, the use of a snare requires careful planning. Discover more here!

When retrieving a lost guidewire, the snare technique is feasible with a GooseNeck snare and it is easier when the fragment is located proximally in a coronary artery.

Learn how CTO’s skills can help in everyday practice in this clinical case by B. Faurie and M. Abdellaoui from the Cardiovascular Institute of GHM, Grenoble on an 82-year-old male patient with chronic anaemia.

Consult this clinical case of a 75-year-old male patient by O. Muller on Rotablator entrapment, if you want to learn how to manage a rotablation atherectomy complication via surgery.

Complications using the Rotablator system are increasingly rare, but what if one occurred - for instance, a wire under the stent struts with a blocked rota? Learn how to deal with this complication here…

In the case of rota burr or shaft disconnection, the burr has become stuck and when an attempt is made to take it out, the broken shaft could be either within or outside the guiding catheter. Discover how to manage this complication...

Herein we have presented a new retrieval method involving a guide extension catheter combined with a snare, which is used to successfully rescue an entrapped Rotablator.