Successful percutaneous removal of retained broken coronary angioplasty guidewire.
The use of a pigtail left ventriculography catheter to retrieve a coronary angioplasty guidewire that had become entrapped in a small coronary artery and broken off with the proximal end in the descending thoracic aorta is reported. A pigtail catheter was advanced to the ascending aorta and twirled, winding the wire around it, removing the wire from the small artery.
D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans