Carotid artery stenting prior to coronary artery bypass graft surgery inpatients with left-main-coronary-artery disease.
Patients with concomitant carotid and left main or left main equivalent coronary artery disease are at high risk of both cardiac and cerebrovascular complications when they undergo revascularization procedures. Here, we present case reports of three patients who successfully underwent elective carotid stenting prior to coronary artery bypass surgery. Any sort of intervention in these patients is fraught with high risk due to the severity of their carotid and coronary artery disease.
Udyavar
Ameya R
AR
Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai. drameya@gmail.com
Pillai
Sudhir K
SK
Pandurangi
Ulhas M
UM
Latchumanadhas
K
K
Mullasari
Ajit S
AS
D000368:Aged; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015897:Comorbidity; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents; D020521:Stroke / Q000517:prevention & control