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Coronary Perforation of Distal Diagonal Branch Followed by Prolonged Recurrent Cardiac Tamponade Finally Resolved with Pericardiotomy - the Potential Risk of Hydrophilic Guide-Wires

PURPOSE: Coronary artery perforation (CAP) is a complication of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Hydrophilic guide-wires have been shown to increase the probability of CAP. Depending on the size of perforations we adopt different treatments. CASE: We present the case of a 73-year old male...

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Autores principales: Januszek, Rafał, Bartuś, Krzysztof, Litwinowicz, Radosław, Dziewierz, Artur, Rzeszutko, Łukasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761561
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401711010061