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Technical considerations when intervening with coronary device catheters in the vicinity of previously deployed stents

✍ Scribed by J. Aaron Grantham; Daniel J. Tiede; David R. Holmes Jr.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 277 KB
Volume: 52
Category: Article
ISSN: 1522-1946
DOI: 10.1002/1522-726x(200102)52:2<214::aid-ccd1051>3.0.co;2-4

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✦ Synopsis

As stent use increases, interventional cardiologists are increasingly faced with patients that require procedures in the vicinity of previously deployed stents. We present two cases of side-branch interventions in the vicinity of previously deployed stents where devices were trapped by the stent. In each case, traction on the device resulted in stent dislodgment. The stents were successfully extracted and replaced without complications.