Device failure

Clinical Videos

Tough Balloon With a Vulnerable Shaft: An Unexpected Device Failure

02/29/2024

Konstantinos C. Theodoropoulos, MD, MSc, PhD; Konstantinos Tsakiridis, MD; Polychronis Vazakidis, MD; George Kassimis, MD, PhD; Antonios Ziakas, MD, PhD

Konstantinos C. Theodoropoulos, MD, M...

Video Supplement to "Tough Balloon With a Vulnerable Shaft: An Unexpected Device Failure" (Clinical Image).

Video Supplement to "Tough...

02/29/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Figure. (A) Coronary angiogram demonstrating

Clinical Images

Tough Balloon With a Vulnerable Shaft: An Unexpected Device Failure

02/29/2024

Konstantinos C. Theodoropoulos, MD, MSc, PhD; Konstantinos Tsakiridis, MD; Polychronis Vazakidis, MD; George Kassimis, MD, PhD; Antonios Ziakas, MD, PhD

Konstantinos C. Theodoropoulos, MD, M...

A 73-year-old man, with a previous long drug-eluting stent from the mid-portion of the left main stem artery to proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD), underwent elective coronary angiogram due to worsening anginal symptoms and an...

A 73-year-old man, with a...

02/29/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Suggested Technique

Management of a Balloon Shaft Fracture During Subintimal Retrograde Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Due to In-stent Restenosis

11/04/2018

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Judit Karacsonyi , MD, PhD;

Imre Ungi , MD, PhD;

Viktor Sasi , MD;

Balloon shaft fracture can potentially have serious consequences, such as embolization, urgent surgery, or even death.

Balloon shaft fracture can...

11/04/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again: A Stepwise Approach to the Non-Dilatable Lesion

01/08/2016

Antony G. Kaliyadan , MD;

Henry Siu , MD;

David L. Fischman , MD;

Nicholas J. Ruggiero II, MD;

Brandon M. Madsen , BS ;

Michael P. Savage , MD, CVT;

We describe a case using an escalating, stepwise approach to a non-dilatable lesion, which ultimately was successfully dilated after the use of an excimer laser catheter.

We describe a case using an...

01/08/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Entrapment and Retention of a Ruptured Coronary Angioplasty Balloon

10/05/2015

Sunny Jhamnani , MD;

Robby Wu , DO;

William L. Bennett , MD, PhD;

Robert R. Attaran , MD, MBChB, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI;

We report a case of a ruptured angioplasty balloon that was entrapped in the posterior descending artery of the right coronary artery and retained in situ after multiple failed attempts at percutaneous retrieval.

We report a case of a ruptured...

10/05/2015

Cath Lab Digest