It was reported that obstruction and patient death occurred.The patient presented to the hospital with chest pain.Vascular access was obtained via the femoral artery.The 80% stenosed, 50 x 2.50mm target lesion was located in the moderately calcified left anterior descending artery (lad).Following predilitation, a 28 x 2.50 promus premier select device was deployed in the proximal mid lad.During the procedure, the patient had slow flow and no reflow in the lad.The patient went into ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation (vt/vf).The patient was given medications but died in the coronary care unit (ccu) in half an hour.
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It was reported that obstruction and patient death occurred.The patient presented to the hospital with chest pain.Vascular access was obtained via the femoral artery.The 80% stenosed, 50 x 2.50mm target lesion was located in the moderately calcified left anterior descending artery (lad).Following predilatation, a 28 x 2.50 promus premier select device was deployed in the proximal mid lad.During the procedure, the patient had slow flow and no reflow in the lad.The patient went into ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation (vt/vf).The patient was given medications but died in the coronary care unit (ccu) in half an hour.It was later reported that the patient was experiencing chest pain a few days prior to admission in the hospital for the diagnosis of further treatment.Angiography revealed that the lad had significant disease n the proximal mid segment.After deployment of the stent, the artery had slow flow no reflow.During the management of the event, the patient had vt/vf.Shock was given to the patient with defibrillator to bring the patient back from vt/vf, but the condition of the patient was not improved, and with cpr, the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit (icu).The timeframe between the discovery of the issue to the corrective action and death was approximately one hour.The cause of death was due to slow flow in the artery followed by vt/vf.An autopsy was not performed.
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