1. Surefire Catheter Deployment
via a Transradial Approach:
Feasibility and Technical
Outcomes
D M B I E D E R M A N , J J T I TA N O , R S PAT E L , E K I M , F S
N OWA K OW S K I , R A L O O K S T E I N , A M F I S C H M A N
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Division of Interventional Radiology
New York, NY
2. DISCLOSURES
• DM Biederman - Nothing to disclose
• RS Patel - Arstasis Inc – Consulting; Sirtex Medical Inc. – Consulting; St. Jude
Medical - Speaker
• E Kim - Philips Healthcare – Speaker; Biocompatibles BTG – Consultant, Speaker,
SAB; Onyx Pharmaceuticals – Consultant, SAB
• FS Nowakowski - Nothing to disclose
• RA Lookstein - Cordis Corp. – Consultant; Bayer Healthcare – Consultant; Boston
Scientific Corp. – SAB, Speaker
• AM Fischman Terumo Interventional Systems – Consultant, Speaker; Surefire
Medical Inc. – Consultant; Philips Healthcare – Speaker; Celonova Biosciences -
Consultant
8. A NOVEL CATHETER WITH GROWING INTEREST
Study Site(s) Description Date
COSY Mt. Sinai (NY)
Feasibility and economic analysis of coiling the
GDA vs. Surefire during Y90 Infusion (n=30)
Publication:
Fall 2014 JVIR
Economic
Study
UCSD
Surefire Infusion System as a first-line technique
to protect against non-target organ embolization
(NOE) as compared to coil embolization. Clinical ,
workflow efficiency, and economic outcomes.
Publication:
CVIR online
8/2014
PET post
Y90
U of
Tennessee
Pasciak
Quantitative measurements of tumor penetration
and reflux of Y90 using PET/CT (n=10)
Complete
enrollment by
12/2014
QED
USC
UMD
UTSW
Feasibility Study of infusion endpoint & tumor
response with DEBS: Surefire vs. Standard
Catheter Infusion (n=24)
Begin
enrollment
11/2014
SPY90
(SIRTeX
sponsored)
Mt. Sinai (NY)
Vancouver (BC)
Pamplona (SP)
Feasibility of SIR-Spheres Y90 delivered as a
consolidated single diagnostic and therapeutic
procedure (n=30)
With & w/o Surefire
2015
Emission
Imaging of
MAA/DEB
U of
Tennessee
Pasciak
Feasibility proof-of-concept study to provide
indirect post-infusion (with SIS) nuclear imaging
of DEB-TACE. (n=5)
Begin
enrollment:
12/2014
9. TRANSRADIAL ACCESS & SUREFIRE
• Fewer vascular complications
• Lower rate of access site bleeding
• Greater patient satisfaction
• Immediate ambulation
• No closure device
• Patients with increased BMI
11. SUREFIRE TECHNIQUE
• 5F Guiding catheter used in
Celiac/SMA (min .054 lumen)
• Liberal use of flushing
• Low dose heparin, nitroglycerin
and verapamil
• .016 wire Fathom wire (Boston
Scientific)
12. SUREFIRE TRA CASES
# Age (y) Sex Tumor Type Tumor location Type FT (min)
Dose
(Gycm2)
Contrast
(mL)
1 59 M
Metastatic
leiomyosarcoma
Right hepatic Y-90 17.8 225 150
3 42 F
Metastatic breast
angiosarcoma
Right and Left Y-90 18.7 189 50
4 73 F HCC Right Hepatic Y-90 4.1 31 50
6 57 F HCC Right Hepatic Y-90 5.9 236 120
7 71 F HCC Right hepatic TACE - - 80
8 57 M HCC Right hepatic TACE 57.3 538
9 65 M HCC Right Hepatic TACE 33.6 1179 80
10 65 M HCC Left Hepatic TACE 17.1 445 80
11 67 F HCC Right Hepatic TACE 18.7 550 100
12 64 M
Metastatic
neuroendocrine
tumor
Left Hepatic Y-90 12.2 236 50
13 65 F HCC Left Hepatic TACE 24.9 259 60
14 45 F
Metastatic bronchial
carcinoid tumor
left hepatic Y-90 - - 80
15 83 M HCC Left Hepatic TACE - - 80
18. CONCLUSION
• Surefire Infusion System can be safely
deployed via a transradial approach.
• Pre-procedural cross-sectional imaging
studies (CT/MRI) can help guide approach
decision
Notas del editor
What is the problem with the current technology? The standard of care for Y90 delivery is an end hole microcatheter system. With that ,the described rate of non target deposition of microspheres ranges currently from 1-5%. And this is despite aggressive techniques which often includes coil embolization and selective catheter placement. If radiation induced ulcers occur, they are notoriously difficult to treat.
66 y.o. male with HCV and HCC treated with TARE - Surefire
Picture showing radiation ulcer
The Surefire catheter (Surefire Medical, Westminster, CO) is an anti-reflux microcatheter (ARM) recently introduced for more precise and directed infusion of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) and trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE)
Safety
Vessel protection
Anti-reflux
Cost/time reduction
Alternative to embolization during mapping
Efficacy?
Infusion efficiency
Distal penetration
Safety
Vessel protection
Anti-reflux
Cost/time reduction
Alternative to embolization during mapping
Efficacy?
Infusion efficiency
Distal penetration
Contraindications:
Radial artery too small <2mm
Larger sheath needed (greater than 7F)
AV fistula / dialysis patient
Severe aortic tortuosity
Barbeau D waveform
10 seconds on this slide
ARM was advanced to the target hepatic artery through the guiding catheter over a .016 Fathom wire (Boston Scientific).
SIRT/TACE infusion was administered in the target vessel under real time fluoroscopy.
A TR band (Terumo) was used for hemostasis. Technical success, fluoroscopy time (FT), major and minor post adverse events and procedural details were recorded.
13 patients, mean age of 62.8 ± 10.9 years, underwent SIRT/TACE for liver tumors in which the ARM was deployed via TRA (6 SIRT, 7 TACE).
Tumor pathology included: HCC (n=9), neuroendocrine (n=2), leiomyosarcoma (n=1), angiosarcoma (n=1)
Technical success was 92.3% (12/13).
No post procedural major or minor adverse events. Patients were followed for a median (interquartile range) of 21 (20.5) months and did not exhibit any signs of non-target chemo/radio-embolization.
The failure which occurred was secondary to a replaced left hepatic artery originating from the left gastric artery, creating an oblique angle which was exaggerated when entering via TRA.