We describe a patient in whom one half (disarticulated) Palmaz-Schatz stent was lost during a failed stenting procedure of an ostial left anterior coronary artery (LAD) stenosis. The embolized stent could not be located by fluoroscopy and was found in the left main coronary artery by intravascular ultrasound. The stent could not be removed using a retrieval device and was successfully deployed in the left main coronary artery by high-pressure balloon dilatation. Subsequently, LAD stenosis was successfully treated with deployment of two additional half Palmaz-Schatz stents.

Failure of Fluoroscopy and Success of Intravascular Ultrasound to Locate an Intracoronary Embolized Palmaz-Schatz Stent / A.L. Bartorelli, P. Montorsi, P. Ravagnani, S. Galli, L. Squadroni. - In: JOURNAL OF INVASIVE CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 1042-3931. - 9:1(1997 Jan), pp. 25-29.

Failure of Fluoroscopy and Success of Intravascular Ultrasound to Locate an Intracoronary Embolized Palmaz-Schatz Stent

A.L. Bartorelli
Primo
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P. Montorsi
Secondo
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1997

Abstract

We describe a patient in whom one half (disarticulated) Palmaz-Schatz stent was lost during a failed stenting procedure of an ostial left anterior coronary artery (LAD) stenosis. The embolized stent could not be located by fluoroscopy and was found in the left main coronary artery by intravascular ultrasound. The stent could not be removed using a retrieval device and was successfully deployed in the left main coronary artery by high-pressure balloon dilatation. Subsequently, LAD stenosis was successfully treated with deployment of two additional half Palmaz-Schatz stents.
stent ; complications ; intravascular ultrasound
Settore MED/11 - Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare
gen-1997
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