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01-12-2018 | Case report
Internal mammary artery injury during percutaneous coronary intervention: a case report
Authors:
Zhicong Zeng, Yaqin Chen, Yinzhi Song, Fengxia Lin
Published in:
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
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Issue 1/2018
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Abstract
Background
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is widely used to treat coronary artery disease (CAD). However, complications of PCI are inevitable. Internal mammary artery (IMA) injury is an infrequent but potentially lethal complication of PCI.
Case presentation
A 78-year-old man was diagnosed with multivessel lesions by coronary angiography. The IMA was injured during PCI, then cured by early identification and active rescue.
Conclusions
This is the first reported case, to our knowledge, of injury to the IMA during PCI. We we report this case to discuss how to treat this injury effectively and avoid this complication during clinical therapy.