BACK-SQUEEZING OF THE CLOT - AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF PRIMARY CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY

Authors
DESMET WJ DENS J PIESSENS J
Citation
Wj. Desmet et al., BACK-SQUEEZING OF THE CLOT - AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF PRIMARY CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY, Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis, 42(1), 1997, pp. 64-67
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis → ACNP
ISSN journal
00986569
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
64 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-6569(1997)42:1<64:BOTC-A>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Distal coronary embolism of thrombotic material is quite common in the setting of primary coronary angioplasty for evolving acute myocardial infarction. Embolization to another coronary artery is, however, much more uncommon. We report on a case In which a large thrombus migrated from the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) to the proxim al left circumflex artery (CX) during inflation of the dilatation ball oon. The putative mechanism was retrograde expulsion of the thrombus b y the deploying balloon. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.