Case Report: A 42-year-old male with IABP developing multiple organ embolism and intestinal necrosis

Wanying Yang; Jing Lu; Ting Du; Lulin Sha; Wei Wang; Xin Wang; Qian Gong

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2024.1335912

Case Report: A 42-year-old male with IABP developing multiple organ embolism and intestinal necrosis

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024 Feb 19:11:1335912. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1335912. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Wanying Yang¹, Jing Lu¹, Ting Du¹, Lulin Sha¹, Wei Wang¹, Xin Wang¹, Qian Gong¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.

Abstract

We report a 42-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and subsequently underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for revascularization. The patient was transferred to the cardiac intensive care unit for intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) due to frequent malignant arrhythmia after PCI. Then the patient experienced the most severe complications of IABP, including multiple organ embolism and intestinal necrosis. This report highlights the rare serious complications of IABP and the challenges encountered in handling this complex case.

Keywords: acute myocardial infarction; complication; intestinal necrosis; intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP); multiorgan embolism.

Publication types

Case Reports

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