title: Coronary artery endarterectomy for retrieval of entrapped percutaneous angioplasty catheter.
abstract: A 70-year-old patient underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of a calcified tight mid-right coronary artery lesion, when the balloon burst and could not be retrieved. Even on cardiopulmonary bypass, the catheter could not be extracted through a proximal aortotomy. The patient had a distal reversed saphenous vein graft inserted into the right coronary artery. The catheter was ultimately removed after an endarterectomy of the calcified lesion.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark 07103, USA.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Rosario
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Donahoo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001158:Arteries; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D004691:Endarterectomy; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male