A steerable introducer‐assisted wire‐loop snare technique: A bailout for unsuccessful lead extraction by a Needle's Eye Snare

The Needle's Eye Snare (Cook Medical) is an effective tool for extracting leads via a femoral vein. However, it sometimes fails to grasp the lead. We describe an alternative method of successfully grasping a lead by creating a wire‐loop around the lead with the help of a steerable introducer.[I...

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Autores principales: Isawa, Tsuyoshi, Honda, Taku, Yamaya, Kazuhiro, Toyoda, Shigeru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9535801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36237864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joa3.12766
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Sumario:The Needle's Eye Snare (Cook Medical) is an effective tool for extracting leads via a femoral vein. However, it sometimes fails to grasp the lead. We describe an alternative method of successfully grasping a lead by creating a wire‐loop around the lead with the help of a steerable introducer.[Image: see text]

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