Coronary artery rupture and pseudoaneury
Coronary artery rupture and pseudoaneurysm formation resulting from percutaneous coronary angioscopy
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Wolff, Matthew R. ;Resar, Jon R. ;Stuart, R. Scott ;Brinker, Jeffrey A.
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We describe a case in which coronary angioscopy was complicated by inability to deflate the device's occlusion balloon. Rapid over-inflation to rupture the balloon resulted in massive dissection of the artery, pseudoaneurysm formation, and ultimately coronary bypass. While the cause of failure of ba