It was reported that stent partial deployment occurred.The 70% pre-dilated target lesion was located in the mildly tortuous and moderately calcified superficial femoral artery (sfa).A 7x120, 130 cm eluvia drug-eluting vascular stent system was selected to be deployed in the index procedure in the sfa intervention.The physician was deploying the eluvia over a.014 inch non-boston scientific guidewire when approximately 2/3 of the way through deployment, the stent would not deploy any further.The blue handle on the back of the delivery system was pulled out completely, yet the stent would not fully deploy.The physician broke the handle and manually pulled on the catheters until the stent was off of the delivery system.The original stent was deployed to complete the procedure.There were no patient complications reported.
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