Parallel Guidewire for Catheter Stabilization in Interventional Radiology: The Anchoring Wire Technique

Abstract

This technical note describes the parallel guidewire method: the anchoring technique as a strategy to ease difficult catheterization in various endovascular interventions. Sixteen patients were included in 2017 in whom this technique was used. The type of intervention, the nature of the target and anchored vessels and possible complications on the anchored vessel were reported. This study included thirteen various embolization cases and four visceral vessels angioplasties cases. The success of catheterization by using this technique was achieved in all cases, without complication on the anchored vessels.

Keywords

• interventional-vascular
• catheters
• chemoembolization
• embolization
• education