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Guidewire: A thin, usually flexible wire that can be inserted into a confined or tortuous space to act as a guide to facilitate passage of instrumentation, such as a catheter. Used in the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms. http://www.brainaneurysm.com/cerebral-aneurysm-glossary.html
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To answer your question, yes, I believe both terms are used to describe the same thing. However, in a medical context, guidewire seems to be the more commonly used term.
For example, during angiography a guidewire is used to guide the catheter to the area of the artery that is to be dilated.
Thank you very much for your patient explanation. In this case, the author interchanges the terms "wire guide" and "guidewire." Since I am not of the field, I could not figure out the interchangeability. Through your explanation, I understand it better now. Many thanks again!
If you search for 'guidewire' in regards to gastrojejunostomy procedures, you will see that it is a very common term - in fact, much more common than 'wire guide'. Still, it would help if you could provide more information what exactly it is used for.
It's about gastrojejunostomy. There are several sentences involving "wire guide": "Dilate the tract through the abdominal wall by advancing the supplied dilators, in sequential order, over the wire guide," "Most commonly, the wire guide coils in the fundus and then exits to the antrum," and "Advance the seeking catheter over the wire guide." I suspect that the "wire guide " must be different from what we usually understand as a "guide wire."
Your point is well taken. A guidewire is a solid wire over which a catheter-like device can be positioned. A "wire guide" sounds to me more like a catheter through which a wire is guided. What is the context? If it is for a pacemaker, for example,
Thanks Wenjer, http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/reprint/109/3/761.pdf
If it were me, and you are not me and you still needed to use the term wire guide / guide wire, I would use guiding wire. but when you use it in context wire-guided
Thanks, Gary. That was my doubt. I thought that a "wire guide" is different from a "guide wire." However, they may be used as identicals in medical contexts. That was why I asked.
A wire guide: a hole or apparatus used to guide a wire through or along.
A guide wire: a wire used to guide an apparatus or something with a hole in it along it to its destination
A Guy wire: a wire that connects too points, used to carry/restrain things
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Explanation: I think 'guidewire' is the more common term.
Guidewire: A thin, usually flexible wire that can be inserted into a confined or tortuous space to act as a guide to facilitate passage of instrumentation, such as a catheter. Used in the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms. http://www.brainaneurysm.com/cerebral-aneurysm-glossary.html
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To answer your question, yes, I believe both terms are used to describe the same thing. However, in a medical context, guidewire seems to be the more commonly used term.
For example, during angiography a guidewire is used to guide the catheter to the area of the artery that is to be dilated.
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