Interv Akut Kardiol. 2021;20(3):162-163 | DOI: 10.36290/kar.2021.007

How to save a patient with conduit rupture?

Marek Kardoš, Peter Tittel
Department of Functional Diagnostics, Children's Cardiac Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia

A conduit rupture is a serious life-threatening complication of balloon conduit dilatation. We report a patient with this type of complication which was urgently managed in the cath lab.

Keywords: balloon angioplasty, pulmonary conduit rupture, surgery.

Received: March 1, 2021; Revised: March 1, 2021; Accepted: March 4, 2021; Prepublished online: March 4, 2021; Published: October 21, 2021  Show citation

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Kardoš M, Tittel P. How to save a patient with conduit rupture? Interv Akut Kardiol. 2021;20(3):162-163. doi: 10.36290/kar.2021.007.
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