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Following a heart team meeting, the consensus was for complex percutaneous coronary intervention to the left anterior descending artery, with or without left main stem involvement. Following initial balloon dilatation within the left anterior descending artery there was a clear coronary perforation. The operators could not advance a balloon past the point of perforation. It was thought that a calcific spur was preventing this. The patient suffered no acute haemodynamic compromise and there was no evidence of pericardial effusion on bedside echocardiography. After a period of observation, the operators made the decision to stop. The patient remained in the cardiac care unit on dual antiplatelet therapy for 2 weeks. The operators then brought the patient back to the laboratory and completed the case with relative ease. 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