Cardiac surgeons are treating an increasing number of patients after different sorts
of complications occurring during various percutaneous procedures. Wire entrapment
has been described in the literature and numerous maneuvers have been developed to
solve this complication. If they fail, surgical management is absolutely indicated.
In such cases the operation can be very demanding. After hardware removal the artery
quality is usually unsatisfactory and endarterectomy with adjacent revascularization
is mandatory. We report a case in which we used a termino-terminal interposition of
the greater saphenous vein to restore a disintegrated part of the coronary artery.
coronary bypass surgery - cardiovascular surgery - myocardial protection
