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Complete robotic intervention for acute epistaxis in a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia: technical considerations and device selection tips
  1. Hamidreza Saber1,
  2. Charles Beaman2,
  3. Satoshi Tateshima1,3
  1. 1 Interventional Neuroradiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  2. 2 Neurology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  3. 3 Radiological Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Satoshi Tateshima, Interventional Neuroradiology, Radiological Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; stateshima{at}mednet.ucla.edu

Abstract

The use of robot-assisted technology is expanding in interventional laboratories with an increasing number of reports of effective treatment delivery in neurointerventional procedures. Here we report the feasibility of complete robot-assisted neurointervention including the guide catheter and microcatheter manipulations with subsequent embolization of the arterial source of hemorrhage in a patient hospitalized with severe COVID-19 complicated by acute epistaxis.

  • COVID-19
  • angiography
  • technique
  • technology
  • intervention

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https://doi.org/10.1136/neurintsurg-2021-018582

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    • Contributors HS and ST contributed to the conception or design of the work. HS, ST and CB contributed to drafting the work and revising it critically for important intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests ST: Corindus Vascular Robotics: advisory board, shareholder from 2018-2019. Currently no relationship. HS and CB have nothing to disclose.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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