Severe chronic aortic regurgitation after percutaneous coronary intervention: a case report and literature review.

We performed a literature review and identified 16 reported cases of iatrogenic severe aortic regurgitation related to coronary catheterization or percutaneous coronary intervention. All patients developed an acute aortic regurgitation and, thus, we report the first case of a delayed complication caused by a protruding coronary stent. The surgical strategy is related to the extent of the damage, where smaller perforations or lacerations seems to be feasible for aortic valve repair and larger defects more often lead to aortic valve replacement. Our patient developed a fibrotic right coronary cusp which could not be used to perform a successful aortic valve repair.