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

Judit Karacsonyi, MD^1,2; Viktor Sasi, MD²; Imre Ungi, MD²; Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD^1,3

Judit Karacsonyi, MD1,2; Viktor Sasi...

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, and Michael P. Savage, MD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Antony G. Kaliyadan, MD, Henry Siu, M...

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

Robby Wu, DO¹, Sunny Jhamnani, MD², William Bennett, MD, PhD², Robert R. Attaran, MD²

Robby Wu, DO1, Sunny Jhamnani, MD2, W...

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