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| Year : 2012 | Volume
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| Issue : 6 | Page : 652-653 |
Concertina effect during carotid artery stenting: Report of a rare phenomenon and its management issues in this vascular territory
Harinder K Bali, Shiv Bagga, Ramalingam Vadivelu
Department of Cardiology, Advanced Cardiac Centre,Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India
| Date of Web Publication | 29-Dec-2012 |
Correspondence Address:
Shiv Bagga
Department of Cardiology, Advanced Cardiac Centre,Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.105209
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Bali HK, Bagga S, Vadivelu R. Concertina effect during carotid artery stenting: Report of a rare phenomenon and its management issues in this vascular territory. Neurol India 2012;60:652-3 |
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Bali HK, Bagga S, Vadivelu R. Concertina effect during carotid artery stenting: Report of a rare phenomenon and its management issues in this vascular territory. Neurol India [serial online] 2012 [cited 2021 Mar 9];60:652-3. Available from: https://www.neurologyindia.com/text.asp?2012/60/6/652/105209 |
Sir,
Concertina or accordion effect is the appearance of pseudolesions that appear in a tortuous vessel when it is straightened by a guide wire or a catheter. Pseudolesions have been well defined in coronary arteries, [1],[2] but data on peripheral arteries are sparse. [3],[4],[5] This letter reports a case of internal carotid artery (ICA) pseudostenosis during carotid artery stenting (CAS).
An 84-year-old male with symptomatic 70% stenosis of right ICA, recurrent episodes of right retinal transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), was taken up for CAS. Deployment of a 6-mm AngioGuard XP filter device (Cordis Corp., Miami, Florida, USA) resulted in appearance of multiple narrowings just distal to the stenotic segment of the ICA [Figure 1]a and b. After direct stenting with a 9 × 40 mm Precise RX Nitinol self-expanding carotid stent (Cordis Corp., Miami, Florida, USA), a severe stenosis was noted at the distal edge of the deployed stent [Figure 2]a, which persisted despite giving intraarterial nitroglycerine. Although the patient remained asymptomatic, we decided to retrieve the distal protection device (DPD) as a last measure to relieve the suspected concertina effect. Even after removal of the DPD the stenosis persisted and we decided to deploy another stent (8 × 30 mm Precise RX) to take care of this iatrogenic lesion [Figure 2]b. There were no further complications following deployment of the second stent and the patient was discharged on dual antiplatelets. | Figure 1: (a) Selective angiography of the right CCA showing a 70% stenosis of right CCA at the bifurcation extending into the origin of a tortuous right ICA, with right external carotid artery origin plaque. (b) Appearance of concertina effect after DPD deployment
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 | Figure 2: (a) Angiogram obtained after CAS and retrieval of DPD showing the persistent concertina effect at the distal edge of the stent. (b) The final angiogram after deployment of a second distal stent demonstrating
the disappearance of the concertina in the distal ICA
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Concertina effect is a well-documented iatrogenic event in coronary interventions. [1],[2] Owing to a larger caliber and greater stiffness than the coronary artery, development of the accordion effect in carotids is considered less likely with only one previous case reported in the literature. [5] The authors reported patients who developed the accordion effect during CAS. In both patients PercuSurge distal balloon occlusion system was used, unlike our case where distal filter protection was used. Since we were aware of the tortuosity of the ICA, we considered accordion effect to be the first differential diagnosis of this angiographic appearance. It is essential to differentiate this from dissection, spasm, and thrombosis, which have a bearing on management. The recommended strategy for confirming the diagnosis in these cases has been the removal of all the devices to facilitate the vessel to reconform to its normal curvature with consequent disappearance of the pseudolesions. However, having already deployed the DPD we had no choice of retrieving the filter and conforming to this phenomenon, which highlights the limitation of this strategy in carotid interventions that can jeopardize the protection against cerebral embolisation. Although no neurologic sequelae were attributed to the accordion effect in our patients, the pseudolesions have been associated with adverse events during coronary interventions. With no long-term outcomes reported on the residual concertina after coronary or peripheral interventions, we decided to stent the persistent distal stenosis despite retrieval of the DPD. On retrospective analysis of our case, we suggest that a proper angiographic analysis of the culprit artery anatomy before proceeding with stenting can help in proper sizing of the stent to avoid this complication. As highlighted in this case, deployment of a longer (40 mm) stent in fact resulted in the distal stent edge landing beyond the second tortuous bend on the right ICA (compare [Figure 1]a with [Figure 2]a which shifted the concertina from the proximal part of ICA to the distal edge of the first stent. Choice of a smaller-sized stent to avoid the second bend could have averted the deployment of a second stent and the resulting undue anxiety on operators.
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