Volume 40, Issue 1 pp. 52-54
Feature Topic: Applications of Intravascular Ultrasound

Use of intravascular ultrasound in evaluating repeated balloon rupture during coronary stenting

Christian Zellner MD

Christian Zellner MD

Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California

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John P. Sweeney MD

John P. Sweeney MD

Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California

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Eitetsu Ko MD

Eitetsu Ko MD

Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California

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Krishnankutty Sudhir MD, PHD, FRCP

Krishnankutty Sudhir MD, PHD, FRCP

Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California

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Tony M. Chou MD, FSCAI

Corresponding Author

Tony M. Chou MD, FSCAI

Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California

Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, M-1186 Moffitt-Long Hospitals, Box 0124, San Francisco, CA 94143-0124Search for more papers by this author

Abstract

Balloon rupture during coronary angioplasty is a well-recognized complication of PTCA. Coronary angiography commonly fails to elicit the cause of balloon perforation. We present a case with multiple balloon rupture during additional high-pressure inflations of a Palmaz-Schatz stent where intravascular ultrasound was useful in revealing a calcified lesion protruding through the struts of the stent. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 40:52–54, 1997. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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