Broken Wires, Dropped Devices, Stuck Stents, Lost Coils and rings! Surgery for device related complications of PCI

Background/Introduction Percutaneous interventions for cardiac disease are on the increase worldwide. Acute complications of interventions include vessel dissection, total occlusion, thrombosis etc. Other than the complications associated with the disease process and the disturbances to the vascular endothelium mechanical complications due to mishandling of or mishaps with the device itself can occur. These complications, though rare do occur and the cardiac surgeon has to deal with them often on an emergency basis.