{"title":"Hazards of straight catheter aortography in the tortuous abdominal aorta.","authors":"A J Gerlock, V Goncharenko","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twenty abdominal aortograms utilizing a straight-tipped catheter were evaluated for catheter tip motion during the injection of contrast media. The catheter tips were stable in 15 patients but showed downward recoil in the remaining 5 patients. These 5 patients had marked tortuosity of their abdominal aortae which was felt to be the etiology of the catheter tip instability. Based on this finding, the use of a straight-tipped catheter is to be discouraged in patients with extreme tortuosity of the abdominal aorta.</p>","PeriodicalId":76463,"journal":{"name":"Revista interamericana de radiologia","volume":"4 3","pages":"131-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1979-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista interamericana de radiologia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Twenty abdominal aortograms utilizing a straight-tipped catheter were evaluated for catheter tip motion during the injection of contrast media. The catheter tips were stable in 15 patients but showed downward recoil in the remaining 5 patients. These 5 patients had marked tortuosity of their abdominal aortae which was felt to be the etiology of the catheter tip instability. Based on this finding, the use of a straight-tipped catheter is to be discouraged in patients with extreme tortuosity of the abdominal aorta.