Open AccessLeft Subclavian Artery Stenting: an option for the treatment of the Coronary-Subclavian Steal Syndrome
Author(s) -
Breno Oliveira Almeida,
Antônio Massamitsu Kambara,
Fábio Henrique Rossi,
Samuel Martins Moreira,
Eduardo Silva Jordão de Oliveira,
Frederico Augusto de Carvalho Linhares Filho,
Patrick Metzger,
Aldo Zampieri Passalacqua
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1678-9741
pISSN - 0102-7638
DOI - 10.5935/1678-9741.20140031
Subject(s) - medicine , subclavian artery , subclavian steal syndrome , cardiology , left subclavian artery , aorta , aortic arch
The subclavian steal syndrome is characterized by the vertebral artery flow inversion, due to a stenotic lesion in the origin of the subclavian artery. The Coronary-subclavian Steal Syndrome is a variation of the Subclavian Steal Syndrome and is characterized by inversion of flow in the Internal Thracic artery that has been used as conduct in a myocardial revascularization. Its diagnosis must be suspected in patients with difference in pulse and arterial pressure in the upper limbs, that present with angina pectoris and that have done a myocardial revascularization. Its treatment must be a surgical bypass or a transluminal angioplasty.