Early vein graft failure leading to acute myocardial infarction, dehiscence and haemopericardium treated by percutaneous coil embolisation and balloon tamponade.
Early vein graft failure is a well-described early complication of coronary artery bypass grafting. Revascularisation with emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may limit the extent of myocardial damage and is associated with lower procedural complications compared than with emergency redo bypass surgery. We describe a case of an early saphenous vein graft (SVG) thrombosis presenting as an inferior ST-elevation to our non-surgical PCI site, complicated by SVG graft dehiscence leading to cardiac tamponade, which we treated with coil embolisation and balloon tamponade during the patient's transfer to a surgical facility for emergent haemopericardium evacuation.
Department of Cardiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Uday
U
Kanakadandi
Juxiang
J
Huang
Kwan
K
Lee
D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000379:methods*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000209:etiology*