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Rotational Atherectomy Burr Entrapment

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This report illustrates a rare, but serious, complication of rotational atherectomy, that is, burr entrapment, in an older patient with a severely calcified, proximal left anterior descending coronary artery/diagonal artery bifurcation stenosis and a background of aortic valve stenosis scheduled for percutaneous treatment. A series of events made us select a 1.25-mm burr, which became entrapped immediately distal to the stenosis. The complication was ascribed to the Kokeshi phenomenon and was successfully tackled percutaneously.

Source: JACC Case Reports

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.103184

Authors: Andreas Y. Andreou, Efstratios Trogkanis

Institutions: University of Nicosia, Limassol General Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $850