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A PTFE-covered stent graft successfully rescued a coronary rupture that occurred during percutaneous coronary intervention in a 75-year-old woman with a myocardial bridge.
Case Report (n=1)
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A stent graft can be successfully used to rescue coronary artery rupture occurring as a complication of PCI for myocardial bridge.
Supports stent graft consideration for rare PCI ruptures; leaves open its role in myocardial bridge cases.
Myocardial bridge (MB) is a congenital variation of the coronary arteries and the segment of the coronary artery through myocardium is compressed during systole. Although it is relatively asymptomatic, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may be necessary to relieve symptoms. Perforation or frank rupture of coronary arteries occurs rarely in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. We report the coronary rupture in a case with myocardial bridge which occurred during percutaneous coronary intervention. We deployed a stent graft to successfully rescue the rupture of the distal segment of left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD-D) with myocardial bridge (MB).
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Shen et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Coronary rupture during percutaneous coronary intervention for myocardial bridge (n=1). PTFE-covered stent graft was evaluated on Rescue of coronary rupture. A PTFE-covered stent graft successfully rescued a coronary rupture that occurred during percutaneous coronary intervention in a 75-year-old woman with a myocardial bridge.
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