Stent treatment of an aortocoronary dissection during percutaneous coronary intervention. A case report and brief literature review.
Aortocoronary dissection as a complication of diagnostic angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention is a rare occurrence. We describe a patient, in whom retrograde aortic dissection appeared during percutaneous coronary intervention to the right coronary artery, which was successfully treated by a 4-stent implantation.
Dept. of Cardiology, Laiko Hospital of Athens, Greece. jimpapdoc@yahoo.com
Dimitris P
DP
Papadopoulos
Chrisostomos K
CK
Economou
Alexandros
A
Perakis
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