‘Rail track picture’: diagnosis of the protruding of left main coronary stent by transthoracic echocardiography especially with three-dimensional images | Zendy

HuangChung Chen | Zendy; WeiChieh Lee | Zendy; Morgan Fu | Zendy

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‘Rail track picture’: diagnosis of the protruding of left main coronary stent by transthoracic echocardiography especially with three-dimensional images

Author(s) -

HuangChung Chen,

WeiChieh Lee,

Morgan Fu

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

european heart journal - cardiovascular imaging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.576

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 2047-2412

pISSN - 2047-2404

DOI - 10.1093/ehjci/jeu034

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , artery , angina , circumflex , stent , left main coronary artery disease , coronary artery disease , percutaneous coronary intervention , right coronary artery , perfusion , thallium , left coronary artery , bare metal stent , radiology , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , drug eluting stent , inorganic chemistry , chemistry

An 81-year-old man with history of coronary artery disease involving left main coronary artery (LMCA) and triple vessels had undergone coronary artery bypass graft in October 2000. Recurrent angina occurred in March 2009, and reversible ischaemia over the lateral wall was noted by thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scan. Percutaneous coronary intervention performed and a bare metal stent (Liberte'; 5.0 × 32 mm) deployed from an ostial LMCA to the proximal left circumflex artery without the guidance of …

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