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Comments
Comment by shine921 Commented Nov 24, 2013
Impact factor: 43
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The best guidewire anyone can use. If this doesn\'t cross a lesion, no device can. In most IR departments you don\'t ask the nurse to give you a \"hydrophilic wire\"... you just say a \"terumo\". Make sure you have a close view (zoom in) and just turn it slowly ... it is amazing what you can do
Comment by rodo Commented Feb 4, 2012
Impact factor: 140
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No gliding wire can a-day beat this device.
In my oncologic experience the wire takes me trough the hepatic artery as none of the supposed competitors can do!
Smaller ones are used in example for difficult PICC positioning, larger to help in difficult PCN or billiary, before heavy duties wires.
Original terumo is still unbeaten on the battlefield of interventions.
Comment by domfay Commented Jan 30, 2012
Impact factor: 76
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We were discussing "desert island" equipment at a meeting last year and the Terumo Glidewire was acknowledged to be one device none of us would be without. I tried a couple of alternatives this year during a restructuring of our inventory but none were quite the same. What did IRs do before this came along?
Comment by alexmaclennan Commented Nov 3, 2011
Impact factor: 14
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Use either the straight or curved tip, usually stiff glidewire for negotiating oesophageal, biliary or ureteric strictures. Pair with either a long BMC or 4F straight catheter. Often the combination of BMC and curved wire does not find a tight central stricture as the wire continually curves back on itself. So change either to a straight catheter or straight tip glidewire. Can either use a torque device or a pair of arterial mosquito forceps for torquing the wire.
Comment by phil Commented Apr 12, 2010
Impact factor: 5138
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The classic hydrophilic guidewire. In our opinion this has never been bettered. This wire can get you most places in the body. It's slippy and has excellent torquability. For really tight strictures you can try the 0.018 inch version that comes with its own torque device.