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Surgical retrieval of broken, inflated angioplasty balloon catheter within intracoronary stent: A real emergency

A 54-year old, hypertensive female patient underwent percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA) followed by stenting of calcified chronic totally occluded right coronary artery. The post dilation balloon catheter got stuck and snapped during manipulations in inflated position within the stent, which c...

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Autores principales: Waikar, Hemant Digambar, Desilva, Rajitha, Rathnayake, Wasanthi, Ponnamperuma, Chandrika, Ravikiran, Anthonpillai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33938848
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_2_20