Early stenosis in a Gore-Tex graft connected to the left main: an emergency transradial angioplasty for a complication in a Cabrol procedure.

This is a case report of a successful transradial percutaneous intervention in a stenosis in a Cabrol graft. Very few reports have been published about percutaneous interventional solutions to complications in this kind of graft, and none have used the transradial approach. The Cabrol technique is used to re-implant coronary arteries after aortic root replacement using a Dacron or Gore-Tex graft interposed between the aortic root graft and the native coronary artery. Due to the dearth of reports on interventional solutions to complications in Cabrol-Grafts, most interventional cardiologists have little to no experience in approaching postsurgical aortic composite graft-coronary (ostial, body, or distal) lesions percutaneously, when the anatomy has been altered by a Cabrol graft. This article will elaborate on the anatomical considerations essential for performing this type of angioplasty procedures in this type of grafting and it will present the transradial approach as feasible and an excellent option for this type of procedure. We report on a case of an emergency angioplasty to rescue a patient who had persisted with hemodynamic instability after 48 hours of a Cabrol procedure which had been performed to repair an aortic type A dissection, caused during an aortic valve replacement.