The difficulty of interventional cardiology in routine everyday practice. Paying the price of a sigh. Case resolution

Abstract

CASE RESOLUTION Given the partial opening of the stent, it was decided to proceed with an increased pressure and assess the stability of the stent. The stent seemed to have been deployed totally outside the right coronary artery, which is why we tried to capture it using a semi- compliant balloon in order to try to drag it towards the radial artery for implantation purposes, but such a maneuver failed (figure 1). This is how we confirmed that the stent was anchored to the ostium by just a few millimeters. Initially the intravascular ultrasound was not used here to assess the location of the stent to avoid any possible moves and manipulations of the implanted stent.