Percutaneous stenting of chronic total occlusion of unprotected left main coronary artery.
Chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery is very rare. We report a case in which a totally occluded, unprotected distal left main coronary artery was successfully revascularized percutaneously, establishing normal flow in the left main, left anterior descending and left circumflex coronary arteries.
Trehan
Vijay
V
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, New Delhi.
Mehta
Vimal
V
Mukhopadhyay
Saibal
S
Yusuf
Jamal
J
Arora
Ramesh
R
D000328:Adult; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents