Coronary artery perforation (CAP) is an infrequent andlife-threatening complication of percutaneous coronaryintervention (PCI), requiring prompt intervention. TheCAP was classified according to its angiographic appearanceas: type-I, a crater extending outside the lumen;type-II, pericardial or myocardial blush with <1 mmexit hole; type-III, streaming of contrast through a >1mm exit hole and the cavity spills as a perforationinto an anatomic chamber.1 Prolonged balloon inflation,pericardiosynthesis, embolization of the perforatedvessel, hemodynamic support, reversal ofheparin and covered stent implantation over the perforatedsegment are the first-line management strategies.2,3Polytetrafluoroethlene-covered stents wereeffective in the management of CAP.4 In unsuccessfulsituations, emergency surgery is the salvation procedure.5Advancing age, female gender, renal failure, heavily calcifiedlesion, chronic total occlusions, tortuous and bendinglesion, complex type C lesions, circumflex and rightcoronary lesions and long and eccentric lesions predisp
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