Successful Percutaneous Intervention of the Left Main and Right Coronary Arteries in the Same Session

Authors : Abdullah Nabi ASLAN, Serdal BAŞTUĞ, Serkan SİVRİ, Cenk SARI

Pages : 154-157

Doi:10.31832/smj.310401

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Publication Date : 2017-09-30

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Left main coronary artery insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(LMCA); stenosis is a relatively infrequent but important cause of symptomatic coronary artery disease. Patients who have LMCA stenosis experience a high rate of complications during or shortly after catheterization. In this case, we present a 84 years old woman with subacute inferior myocardial infarction and confirmed diagnosis of both LMCA and right coronary ostial severe stenosis who was successfully managed with percutaneous coronary intervention in the same session due to the sudden development of cardiogenic shock.
Keywords : Left main coronary artery, right coronary artery, cardiogenic shock, percutaneous coronary intervention