The user facility reported that the involved misago device was used to treat a heavily diseased superficial femoral artery (sfa) from the brachial artery.The doctor had to cross through an aortic graft and a balloon expandable stent in the ostial sfa.When the doctor rolled back the wheel on the misago, the shaft of the stent started to curl up/spiral, but the stent had not started to flower.The doctor pulled the whole stent back.The tip of the stent with the distal markers stayed in the sfa, but the rest of the device was stuck in the destination 6 fr 90cm sheath.The patient was in stable condition.There was no patient injury, medical/surgical intervention required.Additional information was received on 03 mar 2022: the tip was not removed from the patient.There was no blood loss.The procedure was not completed successfully.
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