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Europace 2007 9(1):62-63; doi:10.1093/europace/eul132
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

A novel catheter for simultaneous angiography of ipsilateral pulmonary veins

Takumi Yamada1,*, Taro Okada2 and Yoshimasa Murakami2

1 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory, University of Alabama at Birmingham, VH B147, 1670 University Boulevard, 1530 3rd Ave. S, Birmingham, AL 35294-0019, USA; 2 Division of Cardiology, Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Ichinomiya, Japan

We designed a novel catheter for simultaneous angiography of ipsilateral pulmonary veins (PVs), so that the catheter tip with side holes can be introduced into the inferior PVs and a second curve with side holes into the superior PVs. The simultaneous angiogram of the ipsilateral PVs, using this novel catheter, reveals more clearly the PV ostium to antrum, because simultaneous injection of contrast medium into two adjacent PVs reduces the dilution of contrast medium by blood flow through these veins.

Key Words: Pulmonary vein, Angiography

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 205 975 4724; fax: +1 205 975 4720. E-mail address: takumi-y{at}fb4.so-net.ne.jp


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