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A rare instructive complication of balloon catheter fracture during percutaneous coronary intervention

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The entrapment, fracture, and dislodgement of catheterization devices during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are rare complications, for which cardiac surgery is sometimes required. Here, we encountered a rare but instructive case of balloon catheter fracture during PCI. Although there have been some reports of guidewire fracture in PCI, reports on balloon catheter fracture are very rare to our knowledge. A simulation test to examine the mechanism of balloon catheter fracture revealed that overuse of the balloon catheter, both for kissing balloon inflation and balloon anchor, was highly likely to have been the cause of the fracture.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nantan General Hospital, 25, Yagi-Ueno, Yagi-cho, Nantan, Kyoto, 629-0197, Japan

    Tetsuya Nomura, Yusuke Higuchi, Taku Kato, Natsuya Keira & Tetsuya Tatsumi

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Nomura, T., Higuchi, Y., Kato, T. et al. A rare instructive complication of balloon catheter fracture during percutaneous coronary intervention. Cardiovasc Interv and Ther 31, 70–74 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12928-015-0322-8

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