1. A Rare Case of Thrombus Aspiration Device Stuck in the Stent
- Author
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Palanivel Rajan, Pruthvi C Revaiah, Harkant Singh, Sourabh Agstam, and Himanshu Gupta
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Percutaneous ,Thrombus aspiration ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Percutaneous coronary intervention ,Stent ,Surgery ,Basic knowledge ,Concomitant ,Right coronary artery ,medicine.artery ,Rare case ,medicine ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Hardware loss and entrapment during percutaneous coronary intervention is one of the important complications, which an interventionist should anticipate in his practice. Basic knowledge about various extraction methods is essential to bail out in such situations. We describe a 74-year-old male, in whom a used thrombuster device got stuck in struts of an already deployed stent in the right coronary artery. The device could not be retrieved via various percutaneous maneuvers, necessitating an emergency surgical device retrieval and concomitant coronary bypass.
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- 2021