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Intraaortic balloon entrapment can occur without any signs of balloon rupture and requires surgical removal.
Intraaortic balloon entrapment can occur without balloon rupture and requires surgical removal.
Alerts clinicians to silent IABP entrapment requiring surgery; hypothesis-generating for incidence and prevention.
A case of intraaortic balloon entrapment is reported. To our knowledge, this is the tenth case in the literature. We conclude that balloon entrapment can occur without any signs of rupture of the balloon and that the balloon should be removed surgically.
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Nishizawa et al. (1991) studied this question. Intraaortic balloon entrapment can occur without any signs of balloon rupture and requires surgical removal.
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