Salvage of undeflatable intra-stent angioplasty-balloon-catheter with direct percutaneous needle puncture
Leonardo Pasquetti, Edoardo Pasqui, Giuseppe Galzerano, Elisa Lazzeri, Bruno Gargiulo, Gianmarco de Donato · 2025
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Description
Leonardo Pasquetti and five co-authors tell in a 2025 letter how they rescued a stuck balloon during leg artery surgery. A balloon that will not deflate inside a fresh stent is rare but dangerous, since the trapped device blocks blood flow and cannot simply be pulled out.
Their patient was a 65-year-old man with diabetes and a limb-threatening blockage in a stented thigh artery. After the artery was reopened and relined with stents, the final widening balloon refused to empty. The team reached it through the skin with a needle and punctured it directly, which let it collapse and come out. They offer the trick as a bailout when standard steps fail in large peripheral vessels.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leonardo Pasquetti, Edoardo Pasqui, Giuseppe Galzerano, Elisa Lazzeri, Bruno Gargiulo, Gianmarco de Donato |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |