“…In most patients, however, coronary perforation after balloon angioplasty results in pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade, which often needs pericardial drainage, immediate surgery, or both [29,34,59,60,65,66,[68][69][70][71]73]. After coronary perforations using balloon angioplasty or new devices, cardiac tamponade occurs in 8% after type I, in 13% after type II, and in 63% after type III perforation [8,10].…”