Entrapment of the Impella device by the guiding catheter: a cautionary pitfall of Impella-protected percutaneous coronary intervention

Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2024 Feb 19;8(3):ytae096. doi: 10.1093/ehjcr/ytae096. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Hiroyuki Yamamoto¹, Nobuhiro Watanabe¹, Koki Matsuo¹, Tomofumi Takaya^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Harima-Himeji General Medical Center, 3-264 Kamiya-cho, Himeji 670-8560, Japan.
² Department of Exploratory and Advanced Research in Cardiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.

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Case Reports