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Images in cardiology
Radial artery damage due to sheath fracture: unpredicted complication
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A 42-year-old diabetic lady with known Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) was admitted with cardiac sounding chest pain. She had previously undergone a primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) to the Right Coronary Artery (RCA) via the Right radial artery in 2009.
This time she underwent a coronary angiogram via the right radial artery. A 6Fr 23 cm COOK Flexor Radial sheath was introduced via a modified seldinger technique …
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Contributors Each author contributed to the planning, conduct and reporting of the work described in the article, and we are all responsible for its content.
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Competing interests None.
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