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- Title
The first spontaneous coronary artery perforation due to disruption of atherosclerotic plaque.
- Authors
Bozkurt, Engin; Erol, Mustafa Kemal; Acikel, Mahmut; Gürlertop, H. Yekta; Yilmaz, Mustafa; Atesal, Sebahattin; Karakelleo&gcaron;lu, Sule
- Abstract
Spontaneous coronary artery rupture is rarely seen and most of the reorted cases in the world literature are related to rupture of a coronary artery aneurysm or of a saphenous vein graft. There is no report in the literature of a patient with spontaneous coronary artery perforation due to disruption of coronary atherosclerotic plaque. We can confirm that our patient is the first to be successfully treated with intracoronary grafted stent implantation for spontaneous coronary artery perforation as a result of disruption of atherosclerotic plaque.
- Subjects
CORONARY arteries; HOLES; ATHEROSCLEROTIC plaque; SURGICAL stents; WOMEN patients; CHEST pain; MYOCARDIAL infarction
- Publication
Heart & Vessels, 2004, Vol 19, Issue 6, p294
- ISSN
0910-8327
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00380-003-0755-3