Innovative Guide Extension Catheter Trapping Technique to Retrieve a Lost Stent From a Coronary Artery

Stefano Righetti; Simone Tresoldi; Ivan Calchera; Carlos Enrique Alvarenga; Pietro Vandoni

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.02.005

Innovative Guide Extension Catheter Trapping Technique to Retrieve a Lost Stent From a Coronary Artery

JACC Case Rep. 2022 Apr 6;4(7):411-414. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.02.005.

Authors

Stefano Righetti¹, Simone Tresoldi¹, Ivan Calchera¹, Carlos Enrique Alvarenga¹, Pietro Vandoni¹

Affiliation

¹ Interventional Cardiology Department, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.

Abstract

A stent that was being implanted in the left circumflex artery, to treat an iatrogenic dissection, became dislodged at the ostial left circumflex artery on a previously deployed stent implanted for the treatment of a distal left main bifurcation stenosis. We describe here a novel technique to retrieve the device safely. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: DES, drug-eluting stent; LAD, left anterior descending; LCx, left circumflex; LM, left main; NC, noncompliant; PCI, percutaneous coronary; complex percutaneous coronary intervention; coronary artery disease; coronary stent retrieval; guide-extension catheter; percutaneous coronary intervention complications; stent loss.

Publication types

Case Reports