Open AccessSpontaneous recanalization of a completely occluded saphenous vein graft following unsuccessful percutaneous coronary intervention
Author(s) -
Erkan Yıldırım,
Barış Buğan,
Uygar Çağdaş Yüksel,
Suat Görmel,
Yalçın Gökoğlan,
Murat Çelik
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of the cardiovascular academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-6012
pISSN - 2405-8181
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijcac.2016.12.001
Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , percutaneous coronary intervention , cardiology , saphenous vein graft , myocardial infarction , thrombus , surgery , percutaneous , vein , artery
Saphenous vein graft (SVG) infarctions usually occur in degenerated vein grafts filled with atherothrombotic debris. The success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to SVG decreases because of their greater content of thrombus and other material such as necrotic debris. In this case report, we present an unusual case of a patient presenting with total occlusion of an Aorta-Posterior descending (Ao-Pd) SVG during inferior acute myocardial infarction, which spontaneously recanalized over fifteen days period following failed PCI