Patient came in for an outpatient heart catheterization.It was found that the patient needed percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) to the mid right coronary artery (rca).Guide catheter, guide wire, and balloon was inserted without difficulty.Upon inflation of balloon for his percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca), the balloon ruptured.There were retained balloon fragments in the coronary artery that were unable to be extracted/snared.The patient then needed to go to the or emergently to retrieve the balloon fragments.The patient had an emergent coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) x 1 (reverse saphenous vein graft (rsvg)-> rca).Manufacturer response for rapid exchange balloon dilatation catheter, euphora (per site reporter).Clinical representative will report it to medtronic.
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