Use of the Buddy Judkins Catheter and Stiff Wire Technique to Deliver Sheaths for Catheter Ablation Through Iliac Vein TortuosityNovel Teaching Point

• Yuhei Kasai, MD, FHRS,
• Takayuki Kitai, MD,
• Junji Morita, MD,
• Takuya Okada,
• Yumetsugu Munakata,
• Jungo Kasai, PhD,
• Tsutomu Fujita, MD

Affiliations

Yuhei Kasai, MD, FHRS

Department of Cardiology, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan; Corresponding author: Dr Yuhei Kasai, Department of Cardiology, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo Heart Center, North 49, East 16, 8-1 Higashi Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 007-0849, Japan. Tel.: +81-11-784-7847; fax: +81-11-784-8400.

Takayuki Kitai, MD

Department of Cardiology, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan

Junji Morita, MD

Department of Cardiology, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan

Takuya Okada

Department of Clinical Engineering, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan

Yumetsugu Munakata

Department of Clinical Engineering, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan

Jungo Kasai, PhD

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tsutomu Fujita, MD

Department of Cardiology, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan