title: Rescue removal of disrupted balloon catheter from right coronary artery and aortic arch.
abstract: We present the case of a 70-year-old female patient diagnosed with unstable angina, who was qualified to coronarography in a peripheral interventional cardiology department. Critical stenosis of right posterior descending artery was found. During percutaneous coronary intervention, after-stent balloon catheter interrupted and was left partially in the right coronary artery sticking out of the aortic arch. In a second attempt at removal, using an Amplatz GooseNeck snare, operators managed to take the broken balloon out of the intravascular space.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Stanisław
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bartuś
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kameczura
authors.forename: Michał
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chyrchel
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wizimirski
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dudek
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D057785:Catheters; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome