[Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the left main coronary artery in acute myocardial infarction].
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty is unusual in acute myocardial infarction after left main coronary artery occlusion. We applied this therapy in two cases. The first, a 54-year-old man, submitted to mechanical reperfusion and left main coronary artery angioplasty 145 minutes after the beginning of the symptoms and coronary artery surgery 12 hours later; the second, a 77-year-old woman, submitted to both procedures but not to surgery. In the first case there was a satisfactory follow-up but in the second, the patient died twelve hours later.
Napchan
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Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas-FMUSP.
Caramelli
B
B
Tranchesi Júnior
B
B
Arie
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S
De Oliveira
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SA
Bellotti
G
G
Pileggi
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F
D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000150:complications
Angioplastia de tronco de coronária esquerda no infarto agudo do miocárdio.