The patient was staged to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) and the viperwire advance guidewire was inserted into the left main coronary artery.Left main artery was short about 3-5 mm with an acute turn into an ostial circumflex and there was a calcific nodule at the ostial circumflex.The physician advanced diamondback 360 coronary orbital atherectomy device (oad) in antegrade motion and came back retrograde and then rested.After resting, the physician advanced the oad in antegrade motion again, however, the oad stalled and could not move and was stuck.When the oad was pulled back, the crown jumped and the oad and guidewire pulled out of the vessel.A contrast was injected to see the vessel, following which perforation and dissection at the circumflex, left anterior descending (lad) artery and left main aorta were observed.The patient was coded for 40 minutes, and then expired.In the physician's opinion, the oad caused patient's death.
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