It was reported that partial deployment of stent and stent elongation occurred.The 80% stenosed target lesion was located in the moderately tortuous and severely calcified superficial femoral artery (sfa).A 7x150, 130 cm eluvia drug-eluting vascular stent system was selected for a sfa atherectomy, angioplasty and stenting procedure.The stent was placed post atherectomy over a.014 thruway guidewire.The stent was only partially deployed.The physician had to pull the entire delivery system back to completely deploy the stent, and it was significantly elongated.Upon removal of the delivery catheter, it was stuck on the guidewire.Both delivery catheter and guidewire had to be removed together.There were no patient complications, and the case was completed satisfactorily.
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