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It was reported that the truselect fractured internally.A truselect? was selected for use to treat a bleed in a branch of the internal artery.The truselect and hoop were flushed prior to use.The physician placed a non-boson scientific (bsc) guide catheter, the truselect, a transend-14 guidewire, and an 010 non-bsc guidewire.The physician attempted to advance the wire and noticed the tip of the guide catheter was jumping and trying to straighten.The physician elected to remove the entire microsystem and noticed that the non-bsc wire was all bent up and that the truselect had fractured.No portion of the device was left within the patient, and no additional intervention was required.The truselect was exchanged and the procedure was completed without further issue.There were no patient complications as a result of this event, and the patient fully recovered.
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