Reportable based on device analysis completed on 21feb2020.It was reported that shaft kink occurred.The 95% stenosed, 25x3mm, de novo, concentric target lesion was located in the severely tortuous and moderately calcified left circumflex artery.The lesion contained >=90 degrees bend.After predilating the lesion with a 2mm balloon, a 28 x 3.00 promus elite mr drug-eluting stent was advanced for treatment but failed to cross the lesion.The lesion was predilated again and another attempt was made to cross the lesion but the stent hypotube got kinked and damaged.The device was removed and the procedure completed with a different device.No patient complications were noted, and the patient was stable.However, returned device analysis revealed stent damage.
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