Authors' recommendations: Approximately one-third of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) eventually undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (angioplasty and/or stenting) for revascularization of obstructed or stenosed coronary arteries. PCI procedures are performed by an interventional cardiologist in a cardiac catheterization laboratory. The physician manually guides a catheter via the femoral or radial artery to access the coronary vessels to perform the interventional procedure. The number of patients with complex CAD, which may be characterized by tortuous vessels, lesions in very small vessels, and bifurcated lesions, is increasing. Consequently, interventional procedures are becoming more challenging; in some cases, manual advancement of guidewires fails due to the complexity, location, and/or type of lesion and to limitations in the physician's dexterity with a handheld catheter. Manual advancement of guidewires is also limited by long surgical time, physician fatigue, and radiation exposure for the patient and clinical staff.

Project Status: Completed

Year Published: 2012

URL for published report: http://www.hayesinc.com/hayes/crd/?crd=13412

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

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Country: United States

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