title: Retrieval of undeployed stents from the right coronary artery: report of two cases.
abstract: Two patients are described in whom an undeployed stent (1 Wiktor and 1 Palmaz-Schatz) was retained in the proximal segment of the right coronary artery during coronary angioplasty. In both cases the stent was caught by a technique using a second guidewire. The stent was removed in the first patient during bypass surgery; in the second patient it was removed from the femoral sheath.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Veldhuijzen
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Bonnier
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Michels
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: el Gamal
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: van Gelder
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents