Successful percutaneous removal of retained broken coronary angioplasty guidewire
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
- Vol. 12 (6), 409-410
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.1810120611
Abstract
The use of a pigtail left ventriculography catheter to retrieve a coronary angioplasty guidewire that had become entrapped in a small coronary artery and broken off with the proximal end in the descending thoracic aorta is reported. A pigtail catheter was advanced to the ascending aorta and twirled, winding the wire around it, removing the wire from the small artery.Keywords
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