A 3.5 x 100mm coyote over the wire balloon used to treat a lesion in the left leg below the knee.We decided to change wires to advance the system further so an attempt to change the wires out was made.The new 0.014 wire would not insert and pass beyond the hub of the balloon.Not even the stiff side of the wire would pass.In order to save placement and get a wire down into the far side of the lesion we had to cut the hub off and we were successful at placing the new wire distal to the lesion and retrieving the balloon shaft back out of the body.
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