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Innovative Guide Extension Catheter Trapping Technique to Retrieve a Lost Stent From a Coronary Artery

A stent that was being implanted in the left circumflex artery, to treat an iatrogenic dissection, became dislodged at the ostial left circumflex artery on a previously deployed stent implanted for the treatment of a distal left main bifurcation stenosis. We describe here a novel technique to retrie...

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Autores principales: Righetti, Stefano, Tresoldi, Simone, Calchera, Ivan, Alvarenga, Carlos Enrique, Vandoni, Pietro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9175196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35693908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.02.005
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Sumario:A stent that was being implanted in the left circumflex artery, to treat an iatrogenic dissection, became dislodged at the ostial left circumflex artery on a previously deployed stent implanted for the treatment of a distal left main bifurcation stenosis. We describe here a novel technique to retrieve the device safely. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)