During a routine outpatient peripheral angiogram, the patient was found to have tortuous, stenosed, heavily calcified illacs.
The physician dilated the vessel with a ev3 ever cross 6 x 30 balloon.
Upon inflation the balloon ruptured.
The physician tried to remove the rupture balloon over the wire but the edges prevented him from pulling the balloon out through the sheath.
The patient was transferred to the operating room where a surgeon successfully removed the dislodged device and patient was transferred to the icu for recovery.
Fda safety report id # (b)(4).
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