title: Repeated balloon rupture during coronary stenting due to a calcified lesion: an intravascular ultrasound study.
abstract: We describe a patient in whom balloon rupture occurred three times during inflation in a stent with restenosis in the left anterior descending artery. The cause of rupture was detected by intravascular ultrasound: a calcified ridge that protruded between the stent struts in the distal stent body.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. gilutz@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gilutz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ilia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000628:therapy*; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D017211:Treatment Failure; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional