Percutaneous treatment of left main coronary stenosis as a late complication of bentall operation for acute aortic dissection.
Severe ostial left main coronary stenosis developed 35 days after successful Bentall-type operation for acute aortic dissection. Treatment of this kind of complication is usually performed with open chest coronary artery bypass grafting. In our case, treatment with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stenting of the lesion immediately after diagnostic coronary angiography was performed successfully, with persisting good results at 9-month clinical follow-up.
Balbi
Manrico
M
Department of Cardiology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. manricobalbi@it
Olivotti
Luca
L
Scarano
Flavio
F
Bertero
Giovanni
G
Passerone
Giancarlo
G
Brunelli
Claudio
C
Barsotti
Antonio
A
D000208:Acute Disease; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*