Thrombin injection for sealing epicardial collateral perforation during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary interventions

Kotsia, A.P.; Brilakis, E.S.; Karmpaliotis, D.

Journal of Invasive Cardiology 26(9): E124-E126

2014


ISSN/ISBN: 1557-2501
PMID: 25198496
Document Number: 673889
Epicardial collateral perforation is a serious complication of retrograde chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention. We describe two cases of epicardial collateral perforation that were successfully sealed with local thrombin injection.

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