title: Primary angioplasty in a patient with dextrocardia.
abstract: Dextrocardia is a rare anomaly affecting 0.01% of newborns. We report on a case of a 60-year-old female with mirror-image dextrocardia who presented with an acute myocardial infarction and underwent primary angioplasty of the left circumflex artery. A review of the literature and technical challenges of the case will be addressed.
authors.affiliation: Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York 11040, USA. rjauhar@lij.edu
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jauhar
authors.forename: Eugenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gianos
authors.forename: Kashifuddin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baqai
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roethel
authors.forename: Barry M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003914:Dextrocardia / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*