TCTAP C-052 LM Ostial Occlusion and Guiding Catheter Alignment

Syphilitic ostial occlusion.

A patient presenting the picture of congestive cardiomyopathy was found to have syphilitic obliteration of the left coronary artery. Aortic regurgitation, angina, and myocardial infarction were notably absent.

Syphilitic aortic regurgitation and ostial coronary occlusion.

Extracardiac anastomosis in coronary ostial occlusion.

In his review of the physiology of the coronary circulation, Wiggers (1936) enumerated three types of compensatory anastomosis that may develop after coronary occlusion: (1) through development ofnew ititercoronary communications, (2) through formation of extracardiac communications, and (3) through enlargement of arterio-luminal channels. Widespread minor anastomoses are known to exist between...

Isolated left coronary ostial occlusion detected by multislice computed tomography

dissection of extracranial internal carotid artery due to balloon guiding catheter resulting in asymptomatic internal carotid artery occlusion

dissection of the internal carotid artery (ica) is a rare condition that accounts for a significant proportion of ischemic strokes in young adults. iatrogenic dissection as a complication of neurointerventional procedures is a traumatic dissection which has been reported relatively rare in the literature. in this report, a case of dissection of the ica is reported that was caused by repetitive ...