Coronary stent dislodgement is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. We report a case of stent dislodgement in the ascending thoracic aorta. The stent was mechanically distorted in the left circumflex artery (LCX) while being delivered to the proximal LCX lesion. The balloon catheter was withdrawn, but the stent with the guide wire was remained in the ascending thoracic aor...

Address for correspondence: Dr. Ankur Khandelwal, Department of Anaesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Barelly Road, Lucknow ‐ 226 014, Uttar Pradesh, India. E‐mail: [email protected] Sir, Securing of any external devices such as endotracheal tube (ETT), tracheostomy tube (TT), arterial and central venous catheters, nasogastric tubes, drainage tubes...

Early complete dislodgement of stent from the balloon catheter is a rare complication and may lead to severe coronary ischaemia. In such cases, the first treatment option is the retrieval of the material, while another option is to squeeze the undeployed stent into vessel wall by inflating the balloon. Although several methods and devices are available for stent removal, retrieval procedure is ...

A considerable burden of cerebral embolism in association with cardiac surgery reflects dislodgement of aortic atheroma caused by manipulating the aorta during a surgical procedure (Barbut and Gold 1996; Van Zaane, Zuithoff et al. 2008; Whitley and Glas 2008; Yamaguchi, Adachi et al. 2009). It clearly makes logical sense to identify and attempt to avoid dislodgement of aortic atheroma. This str...

We present a case of a 43-year-old male with an extreme form of the twiddler's syndrome - almost complete lead dislodgement associated with their fracture.