• Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · May 2015

    Case Reports

    Emergency surgical extraction of rota ablator from the stent in the left anterior descending artery.

    • Habib Khan, Kareem Salhiyyah, and Sunil Ohri.
    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK hkhan76@hotmail.com.
    • Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2015 May 1; 20 (5): 677-9.

    AbstractTrapping of interventional devices used to treat in-stent restenosis is rarely reported in the literature. Among those is a trapped rota ablation wire causing longitudinal stent deformation, sometime requiring another stent deployment onto the collapse stent. A Rota ablator getting stuck into the stent is very rare, and a lethal complication. We report a case of 79-year-old gentleman who underwent rota ablation for in-stent restenosis. During the procedure, the rota ablator got stuck into the stent resulting in haemodynamic compromise. To our knowledge, this is the first case where a rota ablator got stuck into the stent requiring surgical intervention. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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