Key result
PCI can cause rare but life-threatening aortic dissection requiring urgent surgical repair.
Population
1 55-year-old woman undergoing right coronary angioplasty
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
Until hospital discharge
Authors
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Vigilance for aortic dissection is essential during PCI; leaves open incidence, risk factors, and prevention in larger cohorts.
Aortic dissection is a rare but life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention that can be successfully managed with urgent surgical repair.
Giri et al. (2014) studied this question. Percutaneous coronary intervention can cause rare but life-threatening aortic dissection, as demonstrated by a case requiring urgent surgical repair after right coronary angioplasty.
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