A broken guide wire while operating on hip is one of every surgeon's most dreaded nightmares. We report here a method which was used successfully to retrieve a broken guide wire from a patient who was being operated for core decompression and fibular grafting for avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

A 0.035-inch guide wire fracture and entrapment in a peripheral artery is a very rare complication, but when it does occur it may lead to life-threatening complications, such as perforation, thrombus formation, embolization, and subsequent limb ischemia. We describe our experience of successfully retrieving a fractured 0.035-inch Terumo guide wire in the external iliac artery using a biopsy for...

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.

We describe a case in which the guide wire penetrated through the left anterior descending artery into the left ventricular cavity during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. This complication of coronary angioplasty which had not been previously reported was suspected because of the characteristic motion of the guide wire on the X-ray image and was confirmed by echocardiography.

An atom attached to a micrometer-scale wire that is vibrating at a frequency ∼100 MHz and with displacement amplitude ∼1 nm experiences an acceleration magnitude ∼109 m s−2, approaching the surface gravity of a neutron star. As one application of such extreme noninertial forces in a mesoscopic setting, we consider a model two-path atom interferometer with one path consisting of the 100 MHz vibr...

Placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) is a common procedure, often replaced by femoral vein cannulation. The overall complication rate is 12 - 15%. Loss of a complete guide wire into the circulation is a rare and preventable complication. Here we report a case of guide wire loss during femoral venous cannulation and literature review.

In the performance of increasingly complex PCI there remains an ever-present risk of stent entrapment and guide wire or other device fracture. We report the first case with stent dislodgement and guide wire fracture to occur simultaneously in the same patient.

30 cases of obstructing proximal ureteral stones at the level of l3-l5 which could not be pushed back into the pelvis and passed by a guide wire under epidural anesthesia, were removed percutaneously with the rigid ureteroscope. multiple stones in one ureter, bilateral ureteral stones and a ureteral stone of a solitary kidney were removed successfully in one session showing the reliability and ...

  During fixation of a femoral neck fracture in a 23-year-old male patient with cannulated screws, a broken guide wire fragment inadvertently advanced through the hip joint and protruded into the pelvis. A second surgical approach was needed to remove the broken fragment from the pelvis. Awareness of such a potentially devastating complication will make surgeons more cautious during implementa...