Surgical intervention to remove an entrapped fractured guidewire during angioplasty.
Intra-coronary entrapment of angioplasty hardware is a rare complication of coronary intervention. Such complication is potentially dangerous. We present two cases of an entrapped fractured guidewire during angioplasty. They were managed by urgent coronary bypass.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Makassed Hospital, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel. darwaz30@hotmail.com
Ahmad K
AK
Darwazah
Raed A H
RA
Abu Sham'a
Izzedin H
IH
Yassin
Ismail
I
Islim
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020878:Device Removal; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects