Intracoronary loss of balloon-mounted stents: successful retrieval with a 2 mm-"Microsnare"-device.
Intracoronary loss of balloon-mounted stents prior to deployment is a rare event but may result in clinically relevant cardiac ischemia or peripheral embolization during rescue attempts. In a consecutive series of nearly 400 patients undergoing elective stenting, we encountered six instances of intracoronary misplacement. We describe four cases of successful percutaneous retrieval using a 2 mm closed loop nitinol device ("Microsnare"). Our proposed method of extraction seems to hold advantages over those previously described.
Elsner
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Medizinische Klinik I (Dep. of Cardiology), St. Josefs Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Peifer
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Kasper
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D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents