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Inducing Brain Death in a Mouse Model Using a Balloon Catheter
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2025
This video demonstrates the procedure for inducing brain death in a mouse model by increasing controlled intracranial pressure through a balloon catheter, mimicking natural brain death.
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Remotely Triggered LAD Occlusion Using a Balloon Catheter in Spontaneously Breathing Mice
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2024
This article presents a unique closed-chest technique for inducing myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in mice. The presented method allows mice to breathe spontaneously while remotely inducing myocardial ischemia. This provides access to the animal for studying the dynamic processes of ischemia and reperfusion in situ and in real-time via noninvasive imaging.
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A Rat Carotid Balloon Injury Model to Test Anti-vascular Remodeling Therapeutics
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2016
The rat carotid balloon injury model described below allows researchers to evaluate drugs or therapeutics that negate injury-induced arterial hyperplasia. Detailed pre-surgical preparation, surgical procedure, and post-surgical cares of the animal are described.
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Harvest of Endothelial Cells from the Balloon Tips of Swan-Ganz Catheters after Right Heart Catheterization
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2019
This protocol describes the removal and purification of pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs) that adhere to the balloon tips of Swan-Ganz catheters while they are wedged in the pulmonary artery during right heart catheterization and remain adherent to the deflated balloon following removal from the patient's body.
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The Rabbit Model of Accelerated Atherosclerosis: A Methodological Perspective of the Iliac Artery Balloon Injury
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2017
Animal models of atherosclerosis are essential to understand the mechanism and to investigate newer approaches to prevent plaque development or rupture, a leading cause of death in the industrialized world. This protocol uses a combination of balloon injury and cholesterol rich diet to induce atherosclerotic plaques in rabbit iliac artery.
FAQs
The dedicated lumen provides a route for injecting fluid into the balloon, while controlled pressure determines how forcefully it expands. This arrangement lets clinicians enlarge a narrowed passage or create temporary occlusion without inflating the balloon continuously. After the intended effect, the balloon can be deflated, allowing removal or repositioning of the catheter.
Although the same inflation principle is used, the target determines the effect. In angioplasty, expansion compresses plaque and enlarges a narrowed artery. In valvuloplasty, the balloon supports treatment at a narrowed valve. Thus, controlled expansion is applied to different anatomical problems while preserving the same basic mechanical action.
These stages allow the device to act only where and when needed. Inflation creates the desired widening, support, or temporary occlusion; deflation ends that effect and permits withdrawal; repositioning allows the catheter to be placed again when the procedure requires another location. The sequence supports controlled, temporary intervention.
Removal follows completion of the intended intervention when no further balloon action is needed. Repositioning is appropriate when the same catheter must provide another temporary effect at a different location or support another procedural step. The choice therefore depends on whether treatment is complete or additional widening, support, occlusion, or device-deployment assistance remains necessary.
Beyond angioplasty, balloon catheters support valvuloplasty, selected methods of hemostasis, and some forms of device deployment. These uses reflect the device’s ability to produce a controlled temporary effect inside the body: it can help address a narrowed valve, assist bleeding control, or contribute to positioning or deployment of another device. The exact role depends on the procedure.
Their flexible design allows clinicians to reach an internal passage through a guided catheter rather than opening the body surgically. Inflation can then widen, support, or temporarily occlude the target, while deflation permits removal or repositioning. This combination makes these devices useful across several interventional procedures and can reduce the need for open surgery.