Devastating Consequences of a Jailed Knuckled Wire in CTO PCI of an Anomalous RCA

Ahmet Karagöz, MD; Doğu Kiliç, MD; Ömer Göktekin, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Mar 2020)

Devastating Consequences of a Jailed Knuckled Wire in CTO PCI of an Anomalous RCA

Ahmet Karagöz, MD,
Doğu Kiliç, MD,
Ömer Göktekin, MD

Affiliations

Ahmet Karagöz, MD: Department of Cardiology, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey; Address for correspondence: Dr. Ahmet Karagoz, Department of Cardiology, Giresun University Faculty of Medicine, Orhan Yilmaz Street, Giresun, Turkey.
Doğu Kiliç, MD: Department of Cardiology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey
Ömer Göktekin, MD: Department of Cardiology, Bahcelievler Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 499 – 502

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A knuckled tip of a jailed guidewire may lead to distortion of the main branch stent when pulled back after balloon dilatation of the side branch ostium. The distorted stent can be crushed to the side of the vessel as a bail-out intervention. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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