Fatal complication, rescue therapy; covered stent for coronary artery perforation

Copyright © 2013 Abdulmelik Yıldız et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Li-cense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction: Although coronary perforation is a rare complication observed during intervene-tional procedures, it has a considerably high mortality rate. The prevelance of coronary per-foration has been reported to be 0.20 %- 0.6%