Retrieval of Broken Export Catheter during Primary Angioplasty.
Broken catheter fragments in a coronary artery during percutaneous coronary interventions although uncommon can potentially result in life-threatening consequences from the attended embolization, thrombus formation, and perforation. We report an unusual complication of a broken export catheter during primary angioplasty, which was successfully managed by inflated balloon-mediated retrieval technique.
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
Vimal
V
Mehta
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
Bhagya Narayan
BN
Pandit
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
Vijay
V
Trehan
export catheter; primary angioplasty; retrieval