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A rare complication of PTCS: ruptured balloon with retained broken catheter
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Grantham Hospital, 125 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong.
Abstract:
This report describes a rare situation in which a retained ruptured balloon with broken catheter was caught in an incompletely opened stent during a percutaneous transluminal coronary stenting (PTCS) procedure in a 84 year old gentleman. A short, warm heart bypass and single cross clamping coronary artery bypass grafting procedure was performed.