It was reported that the procedure was to treat the right coronary artery (rca).
A first stent was successfully deployed, however, while the 2.
75x48mm xience xpedition stent delivery system (sds) had no resistance during advancement the physician could not release the stent and it only partially deployed.
Upon removal, the sds was observed to have separated.
There was no resistance during removal.
A catheter was advanced and managed to retrieve the other parts of the sds.
There were no pieces of the device left in the anatomy.
Another xience xpedition stent was used to complete the procedure.
There was no adverse patient effect and there was no clinically significant delay in the procedure.
No additional information was provided.
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