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Shows successful surgical revascularization for embolic myocardial infarction in a patient with aortic valve endocarditis, highlighting the role of urgent bypass grafting.
A 67-year-old man with aortic valve endocarditis presented with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and was found to have embolic vegetation occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This patient was successfully treated with early aortic valve replacement, extraction of a vegetation embolus, and coronary artery bypass grafting over the site of extraction.
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