A diamondback 360 coronary orbital atherectomy device (oad) was used to perform two low-speed treatments each of 3 areas in a 90% stenosed, slightly calcified, 270-degree or more-calcium arc, 1.5mm-in-diameter lesion in the left anterior descending (lad) mid artery via transradial intervention (tri) using intravascular ultrasound (ivus).The oad was loaded over a viperwire advance coronary guide wire to perform a high-speed treatment next, but the viperwire could not pass through the back end of the oad handle.Moving the guide wire brake lever and the crown advancer knob did not resolve the issue.The oad was replaced to complete the procedure.The patient was stable.The oad which did not allow for viperwire passage was returned to abbott for analysis which identified the presence of material within the driveshaft.
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