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From staff: during coronary intervention a stent was deployed causing a tear in the vessel.We attempted the delivery of a pk papyrus stent however were unsuccessful.Upon removal of the papyrus the covered portion of the stent was not present on the stent.Upon further investigation it is believed to have fallen off into the patient's coronary vessel without being deployed.Thus, made further intervention impossible to happen due to inability to pass the equipment.From doctor: patient was recently post cardiac surgery with 3 vein grafts placed to her heart arteries, during surgery there was damage to the left anterior descending (lad), which was repaired in the or distal to the attachment of the vein graft.The artery did not stay open and closed likely the night of the surgery, the patient was noted to be hemodynamically unstable and with ventricular tachycardia and with electrocardiogram changes suggestive of a cardiac infarction.We took the patient emergently to the catherization lab and noted that the lad segment distal to the freshly placed graft was occluded, we tried opening the segment with a balloon, but the result was suboptimal, and placement of a stent was then decided as the best option at that time.Placed the stent and the repaired portion of the lad likely perforated by the stitched coming loose.We occluded the site with a balloon and decided to place a covered stent which is the papyrus stent as a last resort, the stent was a 2.25 mm diameter stent, the smallest papyrus stent was a 2.5 mm diameter stent, the vessel was 2.25 mm in diameter, we had no other option than to use the slightly bigger covered stent and try to deploy it at a lower pressure.The covered stent got hung up in the 2.25 stent and would not go distally to the affected site and it was then removed, it likely got stripped off the balloon in the prior placed stent, we could not get further equipment distal to that area even with multiple balloons.
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