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Percutaneous coronary intervention of left main pseudoaneurysm with customized covered stents
Author(s) -
Dhakam Sajid,
Ahmeed Hafeez,
Jafarani Asif
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.22903
Subject(s) - medicine , pseudoaneurysm , percutaneous coronary intervention , myocardial infarction , dissection (medical) , left coronary artery , percutaneous , surgery , stent , cardiology , radiology , aneurysm
Left main pseuodaneurysm is a rare entity and is one of the potentially lethal consequences of coronary artery dissection. We describe a case of a young woman who almost a week after her delivery developed spontaneous left main dissection, manifested as acute anterior myocardial infarction. Left on medical treatment alone over a month, spontaneous dissection progressed to symptomatic large left main pseuodaneurysm, which was treated percutaneously with covered stents. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.