Veldhuijzen F L, Bonnier H J, Michels H R, el Gamal M I, van Gelder B M
Department of Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1993 Nov;30(3):245-8. doi: 10.1002/ccd.1810300315.
Two patients are described in whom an undeployed stent (1 Wiktor and 1 Palmaz-Schatz) was retained in the proximal segment of the right coronary artery during coronary angioplasty. In both cases the stent was caught by a technique using a second guidewire. The stent was removed in the first patient during bypass surgery; in the second patient it was removed from the femoral sheath.