title: Endovascular treatment in a patient with recurrent angina.
abstract: The left internal mammary artery (IMA) is the preferred native graft for left anterior descending revascularisation owing to its favourable long-term patency and resistance to atherosclerosis. Incomplete ligation of the IMA side branches may cause recurrent angina due to flow diversion. Reoperation for ligating this unligated side branches may be performed but damage to the internal mammary artery or saphenous graft are the potential complications of this procedure.Therefore less invasive endovascular methods should be preferred. In this paper we report a patient with recurrent angina due to a large unligated left internal mammary artery side branch that was succesfully treated with percutaneous coil embolisation.
authors.affiliation: Erciyes University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Kayseri, Turkey. emavili@erciyes.edu.tr
authors.forename: Ertugrul
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mavili
authors.forename: Mehmet Gungor
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Donmez
mesh_terms: D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006801:Humans; D007387:Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*; D012008:Recurrence