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[Encapsulated coronary rupture following stent implantation]
J M Serrano Antolín1, A Iñíguez Romo, F Navarro del Amo
1Unidad de Hemodinámica-Cardiología Intervencionista, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid.
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia
|January 10, 1998
Abstract:
We report a case of coronary encapsulated rupture following stent implantation in the distal anastomosis of a saphenous by-pass graft to the left anterior descending coronary artery that evolved well with conservative treatment. The patient did not require pericardiocentesis and was treated with prolonged inflations with low pressure autoperfusion balloon at the rupture point. Pericardial adherences related to a previous coronary surgery probably limited the bleeding process avoiding hemodynamic collapse.