A heavily calcified proximal left anterior descending artery (lad) was the target treatment area.Following shockwave intravascular lithotripsy (ivl) and skypoint stent placement a trek nc balloon was advanced for post dilation then the scoreflex balloon was advanced, with the aid of a run through nc guide wire and inflated to 12 atmosphere pressure (atm) and removed.Optical coherence tomography (oct) and angiography were checked, and a perforation was observed.Angioplasty was performed using new trek balloon to treat the perforation but was unsuccessful.Ecmo and empella were performed, and a new run through guide wire was advanced, and an onyx stent was placed to treat the perforation.The patient was stable and transferred to a different facility for bypass surgery.The physician's opinion was that the patient's heavily calcified artery was a factor to why the perforation occurred but could not say which one device caused or contributed to the perforation.It was noted that the vessel was not prepped properly by using an oversized skypoint stent.Background: there were patient complications: perforation patient status: satisfactory patient information: 67 years, male treated lesion information: lad, heavily calcified no case image/cd was provided for analysis.We report this case out of an abundance of caution.
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