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Abstract
A 57-year-old woman presented with effort angina. A coronary angiogram revealed critical 2-vessel disease, for which she subsequently underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. During angioplasty, a coronary guidewire-inadvertently passed into the right ventricle through the septal branches of the posterior descending coronary artery-caused a coronary artery-to-right ventricular fistula. This fistula was successfully closed percutaneously by coil embolization. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case in which a coronary artery-to-right ventricular fistula caused by a guidewire was managed successfully by coil embolization.Entities:
Keywords: Coronary angiography; embolization, therapeutic; fistula/complications/etiology; iatrogenic disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; vascular fistula/etiology; ventricle, right; wounds, penetrating/complications
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27547147 PMCID: PMC4979395 DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-15-5177
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tex Heart Inst J ISSN: 0730-2347