The Anch'Or Harpoon Technique With a Manually Expandable Stentretriever (Tigertriever 13), a Technical Note.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

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

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 o

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362149 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature