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Cardiac catheterization and aspiration thrombectomy resulted in a satisfactory outcome for a 54-year-old male presenting with acute myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboembolism.
Case Report (n=1)
Aspiration thrombectomy during cardiac catheterization is a viable treatment for acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary embolism from a prosthetic heart valve.
May support aspiration thrombectomy in rare prosthetic-valve embolism; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Coronary embolism from a prosthetic heart valve is a rare but remarkable cause of acute coronary syndrome. There is no definite management of an entity like this. Here we report a case of 54-year-old male with a history of rheumatic heart disease with dual prosthetic heart valve and atrial fibrillation who developed chest pain from acute myocardial infarction. The laboratory values showed inadequate anticoagulation. Cardiac catheterization and thrombectomy with the aspiration catheter were chosen to be the treatment for this patient, and it showed satisfactory outcome.
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Wongrakpanich et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Acute myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboembolism (n=1). Cardiac catheterization and thrombectomy with aspiration catheter was evaluated on Clinical outcome. Cardiac catheterization and aspiration thrombectomy resulted in a satisfactory outcome for a 54-year-old male presenting with acute myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboembolism.
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