Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 17, 2026
06:55
Fabrication of Small Caliber Stent-grafts Using Electrospinning and Balloon Expandable Bare Metal Stents
Published on: October 26, 2016
Balloon-assisted retrieval of a broken stent-delivery system
Jayashree Kharge1, Praveen Sreekumar, Kumara Swamy
1Cardiology Department, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Research, Bangalore 560069, India. jrad2can@yahoo.co.in
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|October 31, 2012
Abstract:
The breakage of a stent-delivery catheter at the shaft is a rare and dangerous complication during coronary intervention. We report a simple balloon technique for the successful retrieval, from within a guiding catheter, of both an unexpanded stent and its delivery system.
