Key result
In a 60-year-old female with NSTEMI and ventricular tachycardia, the culprit lesion was successfully identified and treated with PCI in the left circumflex artery using ECG and VT morphology clues.
Why the study?
Identifying the infarct-related artery in NSTEMI can be challenging, especially without intracoronary imaging, because patients often present with multivessel, diffuse, or non-significant CAD.
Case Report (n=1)
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VT morphology and post-converted ECG can assist in identifying the culprit lesion in NSTEMI patients when intracoronary imaging is unavailable.
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May aid culprit localization in NSTEMI-VT without imaging; hypothesis-generating, needs prospective validation.
Identifying the infarct-related artery (IRA) in a non-ST-segment-elevation acute myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) can be very challenging, particularly in a hospital that cannot perform intracoronary imaging due to certain limitations. This is because, by angiography, most patients present with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD), diffuse disease, or non-significant CAD. We present a case of a 60-year-old female patient presented with substernal chest pain and palpitations of 6 h duration. The first hospital contact 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ventricular tachycardia (VT) with unstable hemodynamics, after stabilization patient was transported to the catheterization laboratory for immediate percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). With a clue of VT morphology, post-converted ECG, and coronary angiography, the patient successfully underwent PCI in the left circumflex artery.
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Pradana et al. (2024) conducted a case report in Non-ST-segment-elevation acute myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) (n=1). Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided by VT morphology and ECG was evaluated on Successful PCI. In a 60-year-old female with NSTEMI and ventricular tachycardia, the culprit lesion was successfully identified and treated with PCI in the left circumflex artery using ECG and VT morphology clues.
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