Get Out of Jail: Managing an Entrapped Balloon Using Subintimal Plaque Modification.

JACC Case Rep

Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Published: October 2022

Balloon entrapment is a potentially fatal complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. This report describes the use of subintimal plaque modification for the management of entrapped balloons. This technique, commonly done during chronic total occlusion angioplasty, was used successfully to retrieve the balloon. ().

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9666741PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.07.004DOI Listing

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