The Anch'Or Harpoon Technique With a Manually Expandable Stentretriever (Tigertriever 13), a Technical Note.
Harpoon technique
anchor technique
distal thrombectomy
endovascular recanalization
stroke
Journal
Frontiers in neurology
ISSN: 1664-2295
Titre abrégé: Front Neurol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101546899
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
02
05
2022
accepted:
08
06
2022
entrez:
12
8
2022
pubmed:
13
8
2022
medline:
13
8
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Stent and balloon anchor techniques have been described to obtain distal support and straighten catheter loops, stabilize microcatheters in giant aneurysms, or access distal tortuous anatomy during thrombectomy. These techniques require catheterization of distal arteries with a microcatheter but tortuosity and length issues may render it challenging, precluding the distal unsheathing of a classical auto-expandable stentretriever with the anchor technique. Therefore, we developed the so-called Anch'Or Harpoon Technique using a manually expandable stent retriever, the Tigertriever 13 (Rapid Medical, Yoqneam, Israel). Here, the stent retriever is not unsheathed but pushed out of a microcatheter, and then advanced as far as possible before manual opening. This technique may be used in 2 different situations. First, in the case of vessel tortuosity if the microcatheter can't be advanced as far as the physician wants: the Tigertriever 13 could be delivered through the microcatheter without having to unsheathe it, and be advanced and opened distally to its microcatheter to establish a stable anchor prior to advancing the guiding, intermediate, and micro-catheters (Anchor technique). The second situation is when distal occlusions lead to length issues; the microcatheter may be too short to cross a distal clot: the Tigertriever 13 could then be pushed out of the microcatheter, and be used to cross a sub-occlusive clot as it has a soft shaped distal tip and the physician has a visual on the artery beyond the sub-occlusion. Then, the Tigertriever would be manually expanded through the clot and retrieved (Harpoon technique) to obtain a recanalization.
Sections du résumé
Background and purpose
UNASSIGNED
Stent and balloon anchor techniques have been described to obtain distal support and straighten catheter loops, stabilize microcatheters in giant aneurysms, or access distal tortuous anatomy during thrombectomy. These techniques require catheterization of distal arteries with a microcatheter but tortuosity and length issues may render it challenging, precluding the distal unsheathing of a classical auto-expandable stentretriever with the anchor technique.
Methods
UNASSIGNED
Therefore, we developed the so-called Anch'Or Harpoon Technique using a manually expandable stent retriever, the Tigertriever 13 (Rapid Medical, Yoqneam, Israel). Here, the stent retriever is not unsheathed but pushed out of a microcatheter, and then advanced as far as possible before manual opening.
Results and conclusion
UNASSIGNED
This technique may be used in 2 different situations. First, in the case of vessel tortuosity if the microcatheter can't be advanced as far as the physician wants: the Tigertriever 13 could be delivered through the microcatheter without having to unsheathe it, and be advanced and opened distally to its microcatheter to establish a stable anchor prior to advancing the guiding, intermediate, and micro-catheters (Anchor technique). The second situation is when distal occlusions lead to length issues; the microcatheter may be too short to cross a distal clot: the Tigertriever 13 could then be pushed out of the microcatheter, and be used to cross a sub-occlusive clot as it has a soft shaped distal tip and the physician has a visual on the artery beyond the sub-occlusion. Then, the Tigertriever would be manually expanded through the clot and retrieved (Harpoon technique) to obtain a recanalization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35959403
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.934690
pmc: PMC9362149
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
934690Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Wang, Elens, Bonnet, Halut, Suarez, Mine, Lubicz and Guenego.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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