Isolated Septal Artery Infarction in a Cocaine User.

J Invasive Cardiol

Cardiothoracic Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE77DN, UK.

Published: November 2021

Septal branches arising from the left anterior descending coronary artery supply the anterior interventricular septum in unison. In this unusual presentation of cocaine heart disease, occlusion of a single dominant septal perforator caused a large septal myocardial infarction, resulting in significant left ventricular impairment.

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