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Left Main Coronary Artery Stenting Prior to Surgical Repair of a Type A Aortic Dissection
Author(s) -
Saxena Pankaj,
Boyle Arwen,
Shetty Sharad,
Edwards Mark
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01346.x
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic dissection , cardiology , dissection (medical) , artery , ischemia , lumen (anatomy) , myocardial ischemia , surgery , aorta
Type A aortic dissection (TAAD) can be complicated by myocardial ischemia due to extension of the dissection into coronary artery or by extrinsic compression of a coronary artery by the false lumen. We present the successful surgical management of a hemodynamically unstable patient with acute aortic dissection with ongoing myocardial ischemia by stenting the left main system prior to the surgical repair of TAAD. (J Card Surg 2011;26:634‐635)