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Intraaortic balloon entrapment: a complication of balloon perforation
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1986
Abstract:
A patient in whom perforation of a percutaneously inserted intraaortic balloon resulted in a clot formation inside the balloon is described. The balloon could not be withdrawn percutaneously and was lodged in the femoral artery. It was removed surgically, and the artery was repaired.