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Primary percutaneous coronary intervention of an unprotected left main using mini-crush drug-eluting stents facilitated by intracoronary reteplase.

Author(s): Triantafyllou K, Metaxopoulos P, Babalis D

Affiliation(s): Cardiology Department, General Hospital K.A.T., Athens, Greece. kontriad@gmail.com

Publication date & source: 2011-03-01, Catheter Cardiovasc Interv., 77(4):515-21. Epub 2011 Jan 4.

Publication type: Case Reports

Patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction with involvement of unprotected left main (LM) coronary artery disease represent a very high-risk subgroup. A 37-year-old male patient was admitted with posterolateral acute myocardial infarction and in borderline hemodynamic condition. His left ventricular ejection fraction was 30% with posterior, lateral wall, and apical akinesis along with mild mitral regurgitation. Emergency coronary angiography demonstrated ostial occlusion of the left circumflex artery (without stump, flow Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 0/Rentrop 0) and severe distal LM disease with superimposed thrombus. The primary percutaneous coronary intervention procedure combined intracoronary reteplase plus thrombus aspiration to restore flow in the left circumflex and deployment of two everolimus-eluting stents with mini-crush technique to successfully reconstruct the LM bifurcation. The patient recovered without complications and had a favorable outcome at mid-term. Copyright (c) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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