Alignment of Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Neo-Commissures (ALIGN TAVR) impact on final valve orientation and coronary artery overlap

GHL Tang, S Zaid, A Fuchs, T Yamabe… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
… delivery catheter was inserted into the introducer sheath with its flush port facing … alignment
and coronary artery overlap among these 107 patients were compared with the 121 patients

[PDF][PDF] Improved esophageal patency when inserting the ProSeal (TM) laryngeal mask airway with an Eschmann (TM) tracheal tube introducer

J Wong, G Nair, V Chinnappa, G Arora… - Canadian Journal of …, 2009 - academia.edu
alignment of the tip of the drain tube with the upper esophageal opening would be achieved
in adult patients… it over an EschmannTM tracheal tube introducer, commonly know as a gum …

Patient-specific implantation technique to obtain neo-commissural alignment with self-expanding transcatheter aortic valves

G Bieliauskas, I Wong, V Bajoras, X Wang… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - jacc.org
… single patient. Consequently, a patient-specific method to obtain commissural alignment
b The integrated introducer sheath was used in 18 Evolut and 19 Portico cases; in 3 cases …

Patient-specific instrumentation improves the accuracy of acetabular component placement in total hip arthroplasty

L Spencer-Gardner, J Pierrepont… - The bone & joint …, 2016 - boneandjoint.org.uk
… The placement of the acetabular component was guided by a laser attached to the end of
the introducer, which when aligned with the fixed pelvic reference laser, delivers the planned …

Prostate tumor alignment and continuous, real-time adaptive radiation therapy using electromagnetic fiducials: clinical and cost-utility analyses

MM Quigley, TP Mate, JE Sylvester - Urologic Oncology: Seminars and …, 2009 - Elsevier
patients, the system was used for initial alignment at each therapy session. Thirty-five patients
… caught between the introducer and the channel, preventing the introducer from being …

CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy of the chest: preprocedural evaluation and technique

CC Wu, MM Maher… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
introducer needle is satisfactorily aligned, a single deliberate puncture is made to advance
the introducer … Immediately after removal of the introducer needle, the patient is swiftly rolled …

Techniques for the insertion of the proseal laryngeal mask airway: comparison of the foley airway stylet tool with the introducer tool in a prospective, randomized study

MK Chen, HT Hsu, IC Lu, CK Shih, YC Shen… - BMC …, 2014 - Springer
… optical stylet technique with the standard introducer tool (IT) … positioned by checking its
alignment with the glottic and … LMA in patients weighing more than 80 kg as some patients’ …

Novel surgical technique for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence: transobturator vaginal tape inside-out

J de Leval - European urology, 2003 - Elsevier
… (B) After removal of the introducer, the passer’s handle is aligned in a … patients analyzed
in this study was not homogenous since it incorporated patients with isolated SUI, patients

Improving acetabular cup orientation in total hip arthroplasty by using smartphone technology

FM Peters, R Greeff, N Goldstein, CT Frey - The Journal of arthroplasty, 2012 - Elsevier
… , we then aligned the acetabular cup introducer to be parallel … of aligning the phone to the
outline of the patient's back. We … introducer and recorded these measurements in the patients' …

A New Proposal for Crossing Two or More Sheaths through Single Trans‐Septal Puncture in Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Experience with Steerable Introducer

M Okamoto, T Sueda, M Hashimoto… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… In the 13 subsequent patients, we used the SL0 sheath dilator in 6 and a newly developed
steerable introducer in 7 patients. The sheath dilator was aligned with the anchored first guide …