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Clinical Research Development Unit of Farshchian Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
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Clinical Research Development Unit of Farshchian Hospital, Department of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
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Clinical Research Development Unit of Farshchian Hospital, Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
Abstract
Guide-wire fracture during percutaneous coronary interventions is a rare and potentially serious complication. Herein, we report a case of guide-wire fracture inside the left main coronary artery following percutaneous coronary intervention in a 58-year-old man. The patient had severe chest pain, and the extraction of the retained guide-wire fragment was thwarted via percutaneous retrieval approaches. Ultimately, he had a successful emergency surgical extraction of THE retained guide-wire fragment and coronary artery bypass graft surgery. This report indicates that the surgical extraction of a retained guide-wire fragment is still safe and the only option for its treatment after the failure of retrieval approaches.
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Tarbiat,M. , Shams,A. and Fariba,F. (2020). Successful Surgical Management of a Retained Guide-Wire Fragment in the Left Main Coronary Artery. Iranian Heart Journal, 21(1), 115-118.
MLA
Tarbiat,M. , , Shams,A. , and Fariba,F. . "Successful Surgical Management of a Retained Guide-Wire Fragment in the Left Main Coronary Artery", Iranian Heart Journal, 21, 1, 2020, 115-118.
HARVARD
Tarbiat M., Shams A., Fariba F. (2020). 'Successful Surgical Management of a Retained Guide-Wire Fragment in the Left Main Coronary Artery', Iranian Heart Journal, 21(1), pp. 115-118.
CHICAGO
M. Tarbiat, A. Shams and F. Fariba, "Successful Surgical Management of a Retained Guide-Wire Fragment in the Left Main Coronary Artery," Iranian Heart Journal, 21 1 (2020): 115-118,
VANCOUVER
Tarbiat M., Shams A., Fariba F. Successful Surgical Management of a Retained Guide-Wire Fragment in the Left Main Coronary Artery. Iranian Heart Journal, 2020; 21(1): 115-118.
