{"title":"Balloon-Stopper Retrieval and Peripheral Parking After Inadvertent Ostial Right Coronary Stent Deployment.","authors":"Fernando Quevedo-Candela, Guy Proulx, Tomás Cieza","doi":"10.1002/ccd.70932","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Percutaneous treatment of right coronary artery (RCA) ostial lesions is technically challenging due to cardiorespiratory motion.</p><p><strong>Case summary: </strong>We describe a 70-year-old man undergoing PCI for an ostial RCA lesion where a forceful cough caused complete stent expansion within the aortic root. The stent remained mechanically engaged to the delivery shaft. A 4.0 × 15 mm balloon was inflated at the guiding catheter tip as a \"balloon stopper,\" enabling controlled retrieval and \"peripheral parking\" (intentional implantation) in the right brachial artery.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This case illustrates the technical feasibility of a bailout strategy for selected fully expanded extracoronary stents when guidewire access is maintained. The balloon-stopper technique provided mechanical control during retrieval, while peripheral implantation allowed relocation of the stent when further extraction was considered potentially hazardous.</p>","PeriodicalId":520583,"journal":{"name":"Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.70932","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Percutaneous treatment of right coronary artery (RCA) ostial lesions is technically challenging due to cardiorespiratory motion.
Case summary: We describe a 70-year-old man undergoing PCI for an ostial RCA lesion where a forceful cough caused complete stent expansion within the aortic root. The stent remained mechanically engaged to the delivery shaft. A 4.0 × 15 mm balloon was inflated at the guiding catheter tip as a "balloon stopper," enabling controlled retrieval and "peripheral parking" (intentional implantation) in the right brachial artery.
Discussion: This case illustrates the technical feasibility of a bailout strategy for selected fully expanded extracoronary stents when guidewire access is maintained. The balloon-stopper technique provided mechanical control during retrieval, while peripheral implantation allowed relocation of the stent when further extraction was considered potentially hazardous.