Entanglement due to Delayed Removal of a Buddy Wire

A buddy wire is often used to aid in the delivery of balloons and stents when negotiating tortuous or calcified vessels. We present a planned two-stent mini-crush intervention complicated by entanglement of the buddy wire with the second stent and subsequent distortion of the stent within the guidin...

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Main Authors: Marc Vorpahl, Melchior Seyfarth, Klaus Tiroch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Cardiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/513737
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