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A 81-year-old female patient was referred in our hospital with episodes of pulmonary edema and had an isolated chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery. Coronary angiogram showed total occlusion the left main and filling the left coronary system by collaterals from the right coronary artery.
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- A 67-year-old man had heart surgery before and had a problem called a pseudoaneurysm in a part of his heart called the ascending aorta.
- He was treated using a special procedure that wasn’t very risky.
- After one year, a heart scan showed that the problem was gone and he was doing fine!
Dose the fractured guide wire should be removed during or after percutaneous coronary interventions? In case when the patients have unstable hemodynamic status the fractured guide wire should be removed with percutaneous or surgical method. Antiplatelet drug administration should be considered after procedure to prevention of the coronary artery thrombosis.
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