Media type: E-Article Title: Use of a pigtail catheter to engage a difficult internal mammary artery Contributor: Lapp, Harald; Haltern, Georg; Kranz, Thomas; Boerrigter, Guido; Horlitz, Mark; Klein, Michael; Krakau, Ingo; Guelker, Hartmut Published: Wiley, 2002 Published in: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 56 (2002) 4, Seite 489-491 Language: English DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10235 ISSN: 1522-1946; 1522-726X Keywords: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ; General Medicine Origination: Footnote: Description: AbstractIncreasing use of bilateral internal mammary arteries for coronary surgery will increase the number of interventions in these grafts. Such interventions may be technically challenging because of often tortuous and angulated vessels. We describe a technique to intubate an acutely angulated right internal mammary artery that was inaccessible with conventional catheters. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2002;56:489–491. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.