What is it about?

It is complete update on coronary Guide Catheters, starting from basics of guide catheter design and discusses, when which guide catheter to be used and why.

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Why is it important?

The guide catheter backup support which is crucial for any complex PCI is discussed in detailed and also the mathematical explanation was attempted for few of the commonly used tricks. A new method of guide catheter selection in anomalous coronary arteries is emphasised.

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This page is a summary of: Current and emerging catheter technologies for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology, September 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/rrcc.s47217.
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