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Successful retrieval of a lost coronary stent from the descending aorta using a loop basket intravascular retriever
H Douard1, P Besse, J P Broustet
1Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut Lévèque, Pessac, Bordeaux, France.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|June 24, 1998
Abstract:
Delivery of a balloon-expandable stent was complicated by a systemic embolisation. The radio-opaque stent was lost in the descending aorta, but then removed by using a loop basket intravascular retriever set without any peripheral arterial complication.