A 70-year-old man presented with inferior STEMI. Coronary angiography showed an occluded circumflex artery (Cx) ( Panel A , Supplementary material, Video S1 ). The post-thrombectomy TIMI 3 flow was established instantly ( Panel B , Supplementary material, Video S2 ) . There was no evidence of an underlying stenotic atheromatous plaque, raising possibility of an embolic phenomenon. He gave a 3-week history of malaise, generalized arthralgia, progressive loss of vision, …
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Wojciuk et al. (2012) studied this question.