Fracture guide wire during an elective percutaneous coronary intervention.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Samanidis, George; Contrafouris, Constantinos; Antoniou, Theofani; Perreas, Konstantinos
- Source
- Clinical Case Reports. Jun2017, Vol. 5 Issue 6, p1040-1042. 3p.
- Subject
- *THROMBOSIS prevention
*PERCUTANEOUS coronary intervention
*HEMODYNAMICS
*PLATELET aggregation inhibitors
*CORONARY angiography
- Language
- ISSN
- 2050-0904
Key Clinical Message Dose the fractured guide wire should be removed during or after percutaneous coronary interventions? In case when the patients have unstable hemodynamic status the fractured guide wire should be removed with percutaneous or surgical method. Antiplatelet drug administration should be considered after procedure to prevention of the coronary artery thrombosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]