Successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention in a centenarian patient with acute myocardial infarction.

Cardiovasc J Afr

Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Centre, Training and Research Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published: February 2014

A 104-year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. An electrocardiogram showed ST-segment elevation in the anterior leads. He was immediately taken to the catheterisation laboratory for emergency angiography, which showed thrombotic stenosis at the proximal portion of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery. After intervention on the LAD lesion, successful balloon angioplasty with stenting was performed. Here, we report a case of successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a centenarian patient with acute myocardial infarction. There are few clinical data on centenarian patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary PCI. To the best of best our knowledge, this case is the first reported in the literature where primary PCI was performed on a centenarian patient.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2014-001DOI Listing

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