Side-branch wire entrapment during bifurcation PCI: avoidance and management.
An LAD/D1 bifurcation intervention was complicated by side-branch wire entrapment and unravelling requiring goose-neck snare removal. Residual microfilaments were retrieved from the main branch after further balloon inflations with a satisfactory final angiographic result and one-year follow-up. Various methods are available to avoid and deal with this complication.
Burns
Andrew T
AT
Cardiac Investigation Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, PO Box 2900, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 Australia. andrew.burns@svhm.org.au
Gutman
Jack
J
Whitbourn
Rob
R
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D020878:Device Removal; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents