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Side‐branch wire entrapment during bifurcation PCI: Avoidance and management
Author(s) -
Burns Andrew T.,
Gutman Jack,
Whitbourn Rob
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.22269
Subject(s) - medicine , entrapment , conventional pci , balloon , bifurcation , complication , surgery , cardiology , physics , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics , myocardial infarction
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. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.