Patient had a tevar in 2014 with the proximal landing zone covering the subclavian artery.The subclavian never thrombosed off, and there was a large segment of thrombus sitting in the sc proximal to his left vertebral artery and lima (which was bypassed to his lad).Left axillary artery was exposed with cutdown and access with our enhance mpk and enroute nps arterial sheath was placed.Reverse flow was established with a venous sheath in the right femoral vein and proximal clamping of the axillary artery.The left vertebral artery was wired and a 6x30 enroute stent was placed.The goal was to snorkle the stent down into the subclavian towards the axillary artery to act as a filter for any potential thrombus.An additional stent (8x30) was laid proximally.Upon removing the second stent, the tip of the stent broke off -- the rest of the stent delivery system was removed from the patient, and we were able to visualize the distal radiopaque tip on the wire.A second wire was placed into the vertebral, and the sds tip was jailed with a mdt onyx coronary stent.Post stent angio showed flow to the brain stem.There were no eeg changes during the case, and the patient woke up neurologically intact.
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