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Revision as of 19:42, 23 October 2011
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
A torquing device is a tool interventional cardiologists use to torque a coronary guidewire and to maintain the tension on the guidewire to preserve the torque and the direction the guidewire. There is a gradual inadvertent “unwinding” of torque when the human fingers are used to steer a coronary guidewire, and this unwinding can be effectively prevented by this tool.