Iatrogenic left coronary artery dissection

emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery for iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection

iatrogenic coronary artery dissection during coronary angiography with or without rupture is a rare but feared complication . we herein report a case of iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection in a 49-year-old female. admitted to our hospital with a recent history of severe hypotension, she develpled apnea during angiography. she was intubated  and resuscitated with an epinephrine infus...

Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Iatrogenic Left Main Coronary Artery Dissection

Iatrogenic coronary artery dissection during coronary angiography with or without rupture is a rare but feared complication. We herein report a case of iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection in a 49-year-old female. Admitted to our hospital with a recent history of severe hypotension, she develpled apnea during angiography. She was intubated and resuscitated with an Epinephrine infusio...

Iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection mimicking complete proximal occlusion of the left main branches.

Dissection of Left Coronary Artery

*From the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Supported in part by grants from the Public Health Service HE-5222 and 06314. this has not been reported during left heart catheterization. This report concerns a patient who developed acute myocardial infarction and severe left ventricular failure during diagnostic left heart catheterization. Inju...

Iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection and intramural hematoma caused by diagnostic transradial cardiac catheterization.

The growing use of the transradial approach for percutaneous coronary interventions has been shown to decrease the risk of major vascular complications. However, in this case report we describe a iatrogenic left main dissection during diagnostic coronary catheterization, which remains a rare, but still life-threatening condition. The adjunctive use of intravascular ultrasound may assist in the ...