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Int J Angiol 2012; 21(04): 241-242
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1330231
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Broken Guidewire Fragment

Kanber Ocal Karabay
1   Department of Cardiology, Kadikoy Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Bayram Bagirtan
2   Department of Cardiology, Avrupa Safak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Publication Date:
15 November 2012 (online)

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Abstract

Advances in technology and greater operator experience have increased the success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention while lowering the complication rates. The broken guidewire is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. We present this rare complication in a patient who was medically treated.

Keywords

coronary intervention - coronary artery disease - stent
 

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