CASE REPORT
Early Dislodgement of Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent from
The Balloon Catheter
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Yozgat State Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Yozgat, Turkey
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Sorgun State
Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Yozgat, Turkey
Publication date: 2013-01-09
Corresponding author
Orhan Dogdu
Yozgat State Hospital, Department of Cardiology, 66100 Yozgat, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2013;10(Supplement 1):83-86
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ABSTRACT
Early complete dislodgement of stent from the balloon catheter is a rare complication and may lead to severe coronary ischaemia.
In such cases, the first treatment option is the retrieval of the material, while another option is to squeeze the undeployed
stent into vessel wall by inflating the balloon. Although several methods and devices are available for stent removal, retrieval
procedure is likely to be unsuccessful in many cases. In this paper, we presented two cases of early dislodgement of drug-eluting
coronary stents during coronary angioplasty procedure and other methods subsequently performed in such cases.