UA Open Access Publishing Fund / Background: The use of intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) via the trans-femoral approach has been established for
hemodynamic support in patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, there
are various challenges associated with its use, especially in patients with aortoiliac occlusive arterial disease.
Case presentation: We describe a case of high-risk PCI with IABP support complicated by intra-procedural detection
of severe abdominal aortic stenosis that was successfully overcome with angioplasty of the stenotic lesion.
Conclusions: Our report highlights distal abdominal aortic stenosis as a potential barrier to successful PCI with IABP
support, and angioplasty as an effective means to overcome it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/617182 |
| Date | 10 March 2015 |
| Creators | Low, See W, Lee, Justin Z, Lee, Kwan S |
| Contributors | Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Arizona South Campus |
| Publisher | BMC |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | © 2015 Low et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). |
| Relation | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2261/15/20 |
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