IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (Jul 2022)

Rare case of ostial left main stent fracture due to inadvertent wire access loss

  • Santosh Palled,
  • Christopher Johann,
  • Agarwal Anoop,
  • Polamuri Praneeth

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3
pp. 118 – 121

Abstract

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Stent fractures are not uncommon in coronary intervention especially in given era of extensive development in technology, which made us to take up challenging cases like highly calcific lesions, chronic total occlusions, left Main interventions etc. Not to forget these challenges comes with risk of complications. Knowing these complications and managing properly is necessary. However, some of complications like, ostial left main stent fractures are so very rare, and really worthy to be reported.