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Catastrophic Coronary Stent Fracture and Coronary Perforation Presenting as Cardiogenic Shock

A Rare but Fatal Late Complication of Stenting

Jin-Ho Choi, MD, PhD; Bonggun Song, MD; Young Bin Song, MD; Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD; Seung-Hyuk Choi, MD, PhD; Wook Sung Kim, MD, PhD; Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, MD, PhD and Sang Hoon Lee, MD, PhD

From the Departments of Medicine (J.-H.C., B.S., Y.B.S., J.-Y.H., S.H.C., H.-C.G., S.H.L.), Emergency Medicine (J.-H.C.), and Thoracic Surgery (W.S.K.), Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Gangnam-Ku, Seoul, Korea.

Correspondence to Jin-Ho Choi, MD, PhD, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, 135–710 Irwon-Dong 50, Gangnam-Ku, Seoul, Republic of Korea. E-mail jin-ho.choi@samsung.com

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Rapidly progressive dyspnea developed in a 73-year-old male patient with maintenance hemodialysis. His heart sounds were diminished. Heart rate was 102 bpm, and blood pressure was 92/53 mm Hg. Pulsus paradoxus of 20 mm Hg was present. Three months earlier, the patient had undergone extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention to implant 4 drug-eluting stents for triple-vessel disease with left main stenosis. Emergency echocardiography (Figure 1; Movie I in the online-only Data Supplement) and noncontrast 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (Lightspeed VCT, GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wis) without ECG gating (Figure 2A, 2B, and 2C; Movie II in the online-only Data Supplement) showed that a stent implanted at the mid-right coronary artery was surrounded by a 4-cm round structure and hemopericardium. Coronary angiography revealed a completely fractured stent that dissected the coronary artery, a large pseudoaneurysm, and pericardial tamponade (Figure 3; Movie III in the online-only Data Supplement). Emergency cardiac surgery, including removal of the coronary aneurysm, repair of the perforated coronary artery with saphenous vein, and venous graft to the posterior descending coronary artery, was performed (Figure 4). After 3 weeks in the intensive care unit, the patient was transferred to a general ward for rehabilitation. Although they are rare, stent fracture and coronary perforation could be considered when a catastrophic event occurs after implantation of coronary stents.^1–4

View larger version (95K):   Figure 1. Four-chamber view echocardiography shows a stent implanted at the mid-right coronary artery, surrounded by a 4-cm round structure and hemopericardium.

 

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