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Coronary Artery Perforation following PCI: An Interesting Finding into the Pericardial Space |
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| Authors: | Georgios Dimitrakakis Ulrich Otto Von Oppell Subramaniam Balachandran Agamemnon Pericleous Richard Anderson |
| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom;2.Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom;3.Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| Abstract: | Coronary artery perforation is a known complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and potentially life threatening. Normally, these perforations are small and localized. We report the successful surgical management of a coronary artery perforation following stent insertion with extrusion of an 8-cm endarterectomy length of the circumflex coronary artery with a brief review of the recent literature. |
| Keywords: | coronary artery perforation percutaneous coronary intervention endarterectomy coronary artery cardiac surgery |