Emergency stenting of the unprotected left main coronary artery

Angelo Ramondo; Luca Favero; Raffaello Chioin

Emergency stenting of the unprotected left main coronary artery

Ital Heart J. 2002 Jan;3(1):72-4.

Authors

Angelo Ramondo¹, Luca Favero, Raffaello Chioin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Interventional Cardiology, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy. aramondoit@yahoo.it

PMID: 11899596

Abstract

We report a case of successful stenting of the unprotected left main coronary artery as a salvage procedure in a patient with tight ostial left main coronary artery stenosis who had cardiac arrest following diagnostic coronary angiography.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / methods*
Coronary Angiography / adverse effects*
Coronary Restenosis
Coronary Stenosis / etiology*
Coronary Stenosis / surgery*
Female
Heart Arrest / etiology*
Heart Arrest / surgery
Humans
Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis
Intraoperative Complications* / surgery
Middle Aged
Stents*
Treatment Outcome