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Unintentional Extraction of a Deployed Coronary Stent Due to Microcatheter Fracture
J J Coughlan1, Peter Crean, John V Cosgrave
1St. James's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland. jjcoughl@gmail.com.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|July 5, 2021
Abstract:
To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of unintentional removal of a deployed stent due to the fracture of a microcatheter tip.

