ArticleInterventional cardiology2023
Guide extension catheters: Review of technology and future directions.
Article in Interventional cardiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early Clinical Experience With CrossFAST, a Novel, Microcatheter-Led Delivery System for Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2026Article
- Robust backup support technique with dual guide extension catheters: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2025Article
- Complicated coronary artery dissection in which a guidewire was pushed out from the true lumen to the false lumen behind calcified plaque.Journal of cardiology cases · 2025Article
- Venous Sinus Stenting Using a Ledge-Reducing Catheter, 0.088-in. Catheter-Extender With an External Single Point of Control: Technique and Multicenter Clinical Experience.Stroke (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) has revolutionized the management of CAD, the deliverability of devices including balloons, specialty balloons, stents, atherectomy catheters, thrombectomy devices, and intravascular lithotripsy devices has become a common challenge faced by interventional cardiologists. Guide Extension Catheters (GECs) have been developed and are now widely used to create improved backup support to allow the advancement of interventional equipment required for the PCI. Improved lesion preparation, plaque modification (e.g., with atherectomy), and Guide Extension Catheters (GEC), also called as Mother-Child Technique, has proven critical to procedural success in complex cases. In this review, we discuss the role and limitations of current guide extension devices, with a brief discussion of next-generation GEC.
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