049: Coronary artery embolism

Pulmonary embolism after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Case Presentation: A 76-yearold man developed increased fatigue during his daily 40-lap swim and daily 3-mile walk. His past medical history included use of hydrochlorothiazide for hypertension. His physical examination and baseline ECG were normal. An exercise treadmill test demonstrated ischemia, and cardiac catheterization showed left main and 3-vessel obstructive coronary artery disease. Ec...

Tumor embolism of the left coronary artery.

C ORONARY embolism, from whatever source, is a rare cause of coronary occlusion, as judged by the paucity of reports in the literature. In 1953 Cheng and associates’ could collect only fifty such cases. The clinical diagnosis of its consequences is not usually difficult, but perhaps only in the occurrence of myocardial infarction during the course of bacterial endocarditis is embolism immediate...

MITRAL STENOSIS COMPLICATED BY RENAL ARTERY EMBOLISM

Six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. In five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. The diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. All had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ...

Cardiac CT angiography findings in paradoxical coronary artery embolism.

Massive systemic air embolism during off-pump coronary artery surgery.

In OPCAB (off-pump coronary artery bypass) operations, development of cardiac arrest during the distal anastomosis to obtuse marginal coronary artery leads to significantly low blood pressure in the ascending aorta. Therefore, blowing of compressed air in high flow on not-slinged coronary artery may cause air mobilization from the coronary artery system into the ascending aorta that may result ...