iatrogenic dissections of the ascending aorta are an uncommon and severe complication during cardiac catheterization. a 68-year-old female patient underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization due to non-st-elevation myocardial infarction. during the procedure, a catheter-induced 360 • class i dissection of the right coronary artery occurred. the patient developed severe bradycardia, which was t...

conclusions with the increase in interventional procedures in cardiology, iatrogenic pathology of the aorta is seen more frequently, and every cardiologist should know how to diagnose and treat this group of diseases. evidence acquisition our search strategy involved an investigation in the pubmed database for every available article in peer reviewed journals between 1975 and 2015, for subjects...

introduction: iatrogenic aortocoronary dissection (acd) is a nightmare in interventional cardiology. although acd is rarely reported, the real-world prevalence is suspected of being higher due to unreported cases. the right coronary artery (rca) ostium is involved in the majority of cases, and dissections are usually limited to the aortic sinus in half of the clinical presentations. there are d...

pseudoaneurysms rarely occur as a serious complication following incomplete hemostasis of an arterial puncture site. as a result of the increase in diagnostic and therapeutic angiography, the frequency of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm has increased as well. iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms associated with angiographic catheterization occur most commonly in the common femoral artery. here we report a case...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. we report coronary artery dissection in a 36-year-old woman with retrosternal chest pain 2 weeks after abortion. electrocardiography showed st elevation in leads v2-v4 and st depression in the inferior leads. lab data were normal. cardiac catheterization showed a suspicious thrombotic les...

Iatrogenic dissections of the ascending aorta are an uncommon and severe complication during cardiac catheterization. A 68-year-old female patient underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization due to non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. During the procedure, a catheter-induced 360(°) Class I dissection of the right coronary artery occurred. The patient developed severe bradycardia, which was ...

Iatrogenic acute dissection of the ascending aorta is a serious but rare complication of cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Although treatment of ascending aortic dissection may require surgical repair, stenting at the origin of the dissection area may be sufficient in aortocoronary dissection (AD) following PCI. Described is the case of a 64-year-old female p...

A 52-year-old male underwent cardiac catheterization for abnormal stress test. Trans-radial coronary angiography revealed a severe proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) lesion. LAD angioplasty was performed with two drug-eluting stents. This resulted in dissection of the proximal LAD, the circumflex artery and the left main coronary artery (LMCA) extending back into the coronary sinus....