Atheroembolic perioperative infarction during repeat coronary bypass surgery: angiographic documentation in a survivor.
We report the case of a patient in whom a myocardial infarction complicated a coronary bypass reoperation. We believe the infarction was associated with embolic occlusion of a large coronary branch by atheroma, which we demonstrated in a previous bypass graft preoperatively and did not see in the postoperative study. We are not aware that atheroembolism of a large coronary branch has been reported before in a survivor of reoperation.
D000328:Adult; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D012086:Reoperation