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10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8617
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery for right coronary artery: balloon catheter entrapment
Mete Hıdıroğlu, Aslıhan Küçüker, Ayşegül Kunt, Levent Çetin, Erol Şener
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8617
Percutaneous coronary interventions which are widely
performed for atherosclerotic heart diseases have
become almost an outpatient practice. However, being
an invasive intervention, coronary angiography and
percutaneous coronary interventions may have some
serious complications. In this article, we report an
81-year-old male case with a complication of percutaneous
coronary intervention where the balloon catheter was
entrapped in the right coronary artery and emergent
coronary artery bypass grafting was required. This
report aims to emphasize the need for a cardiovascular
team in hospitals performing percutaneous coronary
interventions although some respected guidelines do not
require such a set-up.
Keywords : Cardiac surgery; catheter entrapment; percutaneous coronary intervention
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