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Ahmad K Darwazah1, Raed A H Abu Sham'a, Izzedin H Yassin
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Makassed Hospital, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel. darwaz30@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Intra-coronary entrapment of angioplasty hardware is a rare complication of coronary intervention. Such complication is potentially dangerous. We present two cases of an entrapped fractured guidewire during angioplasty. They were managed by urgent coronary bypass.
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