Case series of iatrogenic coronary stent avulsion: a rare complication with varied management strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary stent avulsion is a rare, infrequently reported complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with no consensus on management options.

Case summary

This case series presents three descriptions of iatrogenic coronary stent avulsions, and three different bailout management strategies. All patients presented with acute coronary syndrome and required PCI. In the first case, a freshly implanted stent was entrapped in a coronary guidewire and avulsed upon withdrawal of the wire into the aortic sinus. In the second case, a staged procedure to implant a new stent was complicated by stent dislodgement and entanglement with a recently implanted stent leading to avulsion of both stents into the aortic sinus and resultant dissection to the coronary arterie

SUBMITTER: Protty MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184265 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature