Side-branch wire entrapment during bifurcation PCI: avoidance and management

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2010 Feb 15;75(3):351-3. doi: 10.1002/ccd.22269.

Abstract

An LAD/D1 bifurcation intervention was complicated by side-branch wire entrapment and unravelling requiring goose-neck snare removal. Residual microfilaments were retrieved from the main branch after further balloon inflations with a satisfactory final angiographic result and one-year follow-up. Various methods are available to avoid and deal with this complication.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / adverse effects*
  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / instrumentation*
  • Coronary Artery Disease / therapy*
  • Coronary Vessels*
  • Device Removal
  • Foreign-Body Migration / etiology
  • Foreign-Body Migration / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Stents