Open AccessCoronary Embolism: Review of the Literature and Report of a Unique Case
Author(s) -
Vincent Moragues,
Malcolm B. Bawell,
E. LEE SHRADER
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.2.3.434
Subject(s) - medicine , embolus , embolism , cardiology , coronary arteries , artery , radiology
This is a brief review of the literature on coronary embolism and a case report of a very unique type of coronary embolus—a piece of calcium from a calcified aortic valve. Microscopic sections revealed that the calcium plaque was covered by endothelium which had grown out from the vessel wall, thus attaching it to the coronary artery. The patient lived approximately two months after the embolism occurred.
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