The Cupidon’s strike technique: How to Never Miss a Rendez-vous while going on SAFARI.

Abstract One of the difficulties of the subintimal arterial flossing with antegrade-retrograde intervention technique (SAFARI) technique is to properly achieve a rendezvous between both antegrade and retrograde accesses. We propose a new technique to overcome this difficulty. It consists of directly percutaneously puncturing two loop-snares, placed via each access, which are then both used to snare an externally-introduced guidewire introduced through the needle. The snares are then moved en bloc, bringing both snares and the wire into the same channel.