Stent Entrapment is a rare complication of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention if left in situ may cause intracoronary or systemic embolization, thrombus formation, emergent coronary artery bypass graft surgery, or death. We here present a case of 2 unexpanded Drug eluting stent e...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430121
Background: Thrombus embolization during the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is common and results in suboptimal myocardial perfusion and increased infarct size. Two strategies proposed to reduce distal embolization a...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430120
Chagas' cardiomyopathy is a complication of Chagas' disease that presents in the cardiac form, which involves the manifestation of a clinical picture of dilated cardiomyopathy, with global left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure syndrome. In this context, the aim is to des...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430116
Congenital obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract comprises a heterogeneous group of disorders, with obstruction potentially occurring below, above, or at the level of the aortic valve. Subvalvular stenosis is the second most common type of left ventricular outflow tra...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430112
Coronary air embolism is a dreadful complication of cardiac intervention despite careful prevention. In literature reported complications of coronary air embolism ranges from clinically non significant events to cardiogenic shock, myocardial infarction and death. We report a case...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430113
Super-dominant right coronary artery and the absent left circumflex artery is a rare congenital coronary anomaly, with only a few cases reported in the literature. Left anterior descending artery arises directly from the left anterior coronary cusp. Rare coronary anomalies are so...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430114
Transcatheter device closure is the treatment of choice in patients with secundum atrial septal defects with adequate rims. It is technically safe, feasible and has the obvious advantage of being a nonsurgical technique. Patient is free from the scar especially young, unmarried f...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430115
Electrocardiographic changes in myocarditis mimic a wide range of ECG diagnoses ranging from ST-elevation myocardial infarction to complete heart block. We report a case of acute myocarditis in a young female with a wide range of ECG changes that mimic ST-elevation myocardial inf...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430117
Post-infarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare but lethal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction. The incidence of VSR has decreased from 1-3% following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the pre-reperfusion era to 0.17-0.31% following prima...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430119
The dissection of the sinus of Valsalva aneurysm into the interventricular septum leading to complete heart block is a rare complication with only few cases reported in the literature. We report a case of young farm laborer, who presented with multiple episodes of syncope. Upon c...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430118