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Case Reports
. 2013 Dec;22(4):239-42.
doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1343359.

Coronary Artery Perforation following PCI: An Interesting Finding into the Pericardial Space

Georgios Dimitrakakis  1 , Ulrich Otto Von Oppell  1 , Subramaniam Balachandran  2 , Agamemnon Pericleous  1 , Richard Anderson  3
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Case Reports

Coronary Artery Perforation following PCI: An Interesting Finding into the Pericardial Space

Georgios Dimitrakakis et al. Int J Angiol. 2013 Dec.

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: cardiac surgery; coronary artery; coronary artery perforation; endarterectomy; percutaneous coronary intervention.

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Fig. 1
(a) Angiogram at the initiation of percutaneous coronary intervention. (b) Angiogram showing stent insertion in OM1 and kinking of distal part of the wire in the distal circumflex.
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Surprising finding in the posterior inferior pericardial space.
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