Fenestration using a scoring balloon Scoreflex® as troubleshooting for acute vessel closure due to intramural hematoma complication in percutaneous coronary intervention.

ABSTRACT

This case report demonstrated the usefulness of scoring balloon when luminal narrowing occurred after balloon angioplasty in the left circumflex artery due to coronary intramural hematoma. Although a stent was placed, coronary flow was not improved. We intended to make a fenestra between the true lumen and the hematoma using a scoring balloon (Scoreflex® 2.0 × 10 mm, OrbusNeich, Tokyo, Japan) which was dilated in the distal segment of the branch. Angiograms showed restoration of TIMI-3 flow with a long dissection spanning from distal of the stent to the scored area. After 3 months and 1 year, follow-up coronary angiograms demonstrated occluded false lumen and good coronary flow in the treated vessel.