DISOBLITERATION OF CHRONIC OCCLUSIONS AND MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION DURING REOCCLUSION - 2 CASE-REPORTS

Although recent techniques have significantly improved the frequency o f disobliteration of chronic occlusions, the potential complications i n terms of mortality, emergency bypass surgery and myocardial infarcti on seem as common as in angioplasty of stenosis. Of these complication s, the occurrence of infarction during reocclusion at the site of angi oplasty has not been described and even been refuted by some authors. We report two cases of acute infarction, one of which was transmural, occurring during late reocclusion after disobliteration of a chronical ly occluded artery.