Abstract
BackgroundWith improving and aggressive endovascular venous and dialysis techniques there is increasing use of stent grafts with different platforms available on the market. Inappropriately sized stents may displace and potentially end up in the heart or lungs as potential dangerous foreign bodies. There is single published case of successful viabahn stent graft retrieval from the pulmonary circulation.Case presentationWe present a patient who had successful safe percutaneous retrieval of a migrated Viabahn stent from a segmental Pulmonary artery and describe a different novel safe technique of successful stent graft retrieval from the pulmonary artery with very low risk to potential damage to the cardiac valve complex.ConclusionThis case report demonstrates that Viabahn stent grafts can be safely retrieved from the pulmonary arterial system using this endovascular technique that will significantly reduce the risk of damage to the cardiac valve complex therefore avoiding potential complex surgery.
Highlights
With improving and aggressive endovascular venous and dialysis techniques there is increasing use of stent grafts with different platforms available on the market
This case report demonstrates that Viabahn stent grafts can be safely retrieved from the pulmonary arterial system using this endovascular technique that will significantly reduce the risk of damage to the cardiac valve complex avoiding potential complex surgery
We present a case of Viabahn stent displacement with migration to the segmental pulmonary artery and subsequent successful safe retrieval using a relatively novel technique that significantly avoids damage to the valvular complex
Summary
This case report demonstrates that Viabahn stent grafts can be safely retrieved from the pulmonary arterial system, the segmental artery, using this endovascular technique that will significantly reduce the risk of damage to the cardiac valve complex avoiding potential complex surgery
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