Coronary Artery Perforation following PCI: An Interesting Finding into the Pericardial Space.
Coronary artery perforation is a known complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and potentially life threatening. Normally, these perforations are small and localized. We report the successful surgical management of a coronary artery perforation following stent insertion with extrusion of an 8-cm endarterectomy length of the circumflex coronary artery with a brief review of the recent literature.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Georgios
G
Dimitrakakis
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Ulrich Otto
UO
Von Oppell
Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Subramaniam
S
Balachandran
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Agamemnon
A
Pericleous
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Richard
R
Anderson
cardiac surgery; coronary artery; coronary artery perforation; endarterectomy; percutaneous coronary intervention