Repeated balloon rupture during coronary stenting due to a calcified lesion: an intravascular ultrasound study.
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.
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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
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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