%0 Journal Article %T Incid¨ºncia, manejo e progn¨®stico de perfura£¿£¿es coron¨¢rias %A Silva %A Wersley Ara¨²jo %A Costa %A Ricardo A. %A Campostrini %A Tarc¨ªsio %A Costa Jr. %A J. Ribamar %A Siqueira %A Dimytri A. %A Staico %A Rodolfo %A Feres %A Fausto %A Chaves %A ¨¢urea J. %A Tanajura %A Luiz F. %A Abizaid %A Alexandre %A Sousa %A J. Eduardo %J Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S2179-83972012000300013 %X background: coronary perforation is currently a rare, but potentially catastrophic complication. the aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence, predictors, management and prognosis of coronary perforations at a hospital with a large number of percutaneous coronary interventions (pcis). methods: clinical, angiographic, procedural and in-hospital outcomes of patients with or without coronary perforations were compared. univariate analysis was performed to determine the predictors of this complication. results: from december 2007 to january 2012, 5,585 consecutive patients were submitted to pci and 18 had coronary perforation (0.32%), of whom 55.5% were female and 38.9% were diabetic. in this group, the left anterior descending artery was the most frequently treated vessel (61.1%) as well as type c lesion (61.1%) and chronic occlusions were approached in 27.8% of these cases. most of the coronary perforations (11/18) had a lower complexity according to the modified ellis classification, whereas the remaining perforations were classified as grades iii (6/18) or iv (1/18). the balloon-catheter device was responsible for perforation in 61.1% of the cases. prolonged inflation with a balloon-catheter and heparin reversal with protamine was performed in 72.2% and 88.9% of the cases, respectively. only 1 patient (5.6%) required an emergency surgery due to cardiac tamponade. there were no deaths associated with coronary perforation. according to the univariate analysis, coronary perforation predictors were: female gender (p = 0.03), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (p = 0.006) and chronic occlusion (p < 0.01). conclusions: in our experience, coronary perforation was a rare event, which was managed conservatively in most of the cases and was associated with a good in-hospital outcome. %K coronary artery disease %K coronary stenosis %K coronary angiography %K angioplasty. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2179-83972012000300013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en