TITLE:
Un-Retrieved Deformed Biodegradable Polymer Coated Drug Eluting Stent after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention to Complete Occluded Right Coronary Artery: Patient at 8 Months Angiographic Follow-Up
AUTHORS:
Layth A. Mimish
KEYWORDS:
Stent Entrapment; Balloon Rupture; Deformed Stent
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.5 No.5,
March
18,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Balloon rupture during stent deployment is rare,
and can cause stent damage upon its retrieval. We described a case of inadequate
drug-eluting stent expansion in a fibrotic and calcified mid right coronary artery
lesion despite pre-treatment with high pressure balloon inflation, with rupture
and entrapment of the balloon within the stent. Attempts of retrieval of the ruptured
balloon caused severe deformity of the distal segment of the stent. The stent could
not be crushed or retrieved, and was left in
situ. Angiographic follow-up at 8 months time showed widely patent vessel.