Stenting of both the protected and unprotected left main coronary artery has been described. This case presents a patient who had inadvertent left main stent deployment. A 47-year-old female presented with a non-Q-wave infarction and subsequent angina leading to angiography and angioplasty of her pr
Stent placement in surgically reimplanted left main coronary artery in patient with anomalous origin of left main coronary artery from pulmonary artery
โ Scribed by Ohmoto, Yuki ;Hara, Kazuhiro ;Kuroda, Yuzo ;Fukuda, Sachito ;Tamura, Tsutomu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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โฆ Synopsis
Surgical repair of a 29-year-old woman's left coronary artery with an anomalous origin from the pulmonary artery was performed by reimplantation of the left main artery into the aorta, together with coronary artery bypass grafting. Subsequent stenosis of the reimplanted left main artery was treated with successful Palmaz-Schatz stent placement.
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We present a novel technique employing biplane cineangiography with simultaneous left coronary and pulmonary angiography to define the anomalous course of the left main coronary artery when it originates from the right sinus of Valsalva. These biplane cinearteriograms clearly define the relationship