Broken coronary stent catheter retrieval percutaneously case report and literature review

Abstract

We present a 73-year-old male patient with an unusual complication of a broken coronary stent catheter during percutaneous coronary angioplasty, which was successfully retrieved by balloon trapping and pulling-back method, along with literature review of similar cases.

Keywords

• Coronary stent catheter break
• percutaneous coronary intervention
• percutaneous retrieval