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Usefulness of Grasping a Guiding Catheter with a Loop-Snare Wire for Stent Placement into the Vertebrobasilar Artery

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In cases in which the subclavian artery is severely tortuous or branches with an extremely angulated origin, stent placement in the vertebrobasilar artery on the approach from the femoral artery is often technically difficult. We report two cases in which a stent placement procedure for the vertebrobasilar artery was successfully performed by grasping a guiding catheter with a loop-snare wire. This technique is useful for tortuous arteries or arteries branching with an extremely angulated origin.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8641, Japan

    Kenji Yoneda, Osamu Matsui, Junichiro Sanada & Miho Kusanagi

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8641, Japan

    Yoshikazu Okamoto & Shinya Kida

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  1. Kenji Yoneda
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Correspondence to Kenji Yoneda.

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Yoneda, K., Matsui, O., Sanada, J. et al. Usefulness of Grasping a Guiding Catheter with a Loop-Snare Wire for Stent Placement into the Vertebrobasilar Artery. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 29, 646–649 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-005-0065-5

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