Percutaneous closure of coronary pulmonary arterial fistula using catheterization laboratory trash

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2003 May;59(1):49-51. doi: 10.1002/ccd.10469.

Abstract

We report a case of coronary pulmonary arterial fistula that was successfully occluded by packing the fistula with thrombogenic floppy tips of used percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty guidewires instead of conventional steel coils.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Artery*
  • Vascular Fistula / therapy*