Complication of carotid stenting: incomplete misdeployment of the stent in the femoral artery.

Objectives: The presence of intravascular foreign bodies is underreported in the literature and is more commonly encountered in clinical practice. We report on a case where an attempt to position a carotid stent resulted in misdeployment of the stent in the femoral artery and its surgical removal.

Methods: A 63-year-old patient admitted to hospital for cerebral stroke underwent thrombolysis for occlusive dissection of right carotid artery and was transferred to our hospital for additional thrombo-aspiration and carotid stenting.

Results: The carotid stent was misdeployed incompletely in the femoral artery and had to be removed surgically.

Conclusions: Appropriate knowledge of intravascular migration and deployment failure management should be considered as important as the optimal device deployment.