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A Case of Balloon Rupture During Coronary Angioplasty: Slow Flow Requiring Swift Action

We describe the case of a middle-aged man undergoing three-vessel coronary angioplasty due to unstable angina. Attempt to predilate a calcified lesion in the left circumflex artery with a semi-compliant balloon, inflated above the rated burst pressure, resulted in balloon rupture. Subsequently, the...

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Autores principales: Sofidis, Georgios, Kartas, Anastasios, Karagiannidis, Efstratios, Stalikas, Nikolaos, Sianos, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850209
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9335

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