ABSTRACT

Coronary artery perforation (CAP) is a rare but feared complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. With the use of novel instruments, including hydrophilic and ultrarigid guidewires, rotablator devices, and cutting balloons, the success rate of intervention for coronary artery chronic total occlusion (CTOs) and calcified lesions has increased. Along with these changes, the risk of CAP has also increased. In this case report, we present a tip III CAP due to high-pressure postdilatation of coronary stent in a heavily calcified lesion of an ectatic right coronary artery.