It was reported that after a coronary orbital atherectomy procedure, the patient went into atrial fibrillation and eventually expired.The target lesion was located in the left anterior descending (lad) artery.The physician advanced a csi viperwire guide wire across the lesion and loaded a csi orbital atherectomy device (oad) onto it.The physician performed four runs at low speed using the oad and followed-up atherectomy by deploying a stent in the lad.While in holding, the patient went into atrial fibrillation.Emergency measures were taken, but the patient was unable to recover and expired.
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