Key result
Emergency snare extraction successfully retrieves a rare fractured stent delivery shaft during PCI.
Case Report (n=1)
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This case highlights the rare but serious complication of stent delivery shaft fracture during PCI and demonstrates successful retrieval using snare and balloon techniques.
Alerts clinicians to rare stent shaft fracture in PCI; case report leaves optimal retrieval strategies open.
Percutaneous coronary intervention has been a major interventional medical development of our times, being a life-saving procedure in the setting of acute coronary syndrome, and providing significant improvements in quality of life for patients with chronic coronary syndromes. Complications of coronary intervention have continued to downtrend, facilitated by improvements in stent and wire technology, the aggressive use of antiplatelets, and the regular use of invasive anatomical and physiological assessments. The authors present the case of a challenging and rare procedural complication, that of stent delivery shaft fracture requiring emergency snare extraction.
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Brandon et al. (2022) conducted a case report in Acute coronary syndrome and stent delivery shaft fracture (n=1). Emergency snare extraction and percutaneous coronary intervention was evaluated on Successful retrieval of fractured stent delivery shaft and completion of PCI. A rare stent delivery shaft fracture during percutaneous coronary intervention in a 65-year-old female with acute coronary syndrome was successfully managed with emergency snare extraction.
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