CASE REPORT
A Practical Approach to the Percutaneous Treatment of Iatrogenic Aorto-coronary Dissection
George Kassimis, Tushar Raina*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 50
Last Page: 54
Publisher ID: TOCMJ-12-50
DOI: 10.2174/1874192401812010050
Article History:
Received Date: 14/2/2018Revision Received Date: 05/03/2018
Acceptance Date: 05/04/2018
Electronic publication date: 24/04/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Catheter-induced aortic dissection during coronary angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is a relatively infrequent, but potentially life-threatening complication. Patients who suffer this complication may require emergency aortic surgery. More recently, reports of treating the ostium of the dissected coronary artery have emerged as an alternative therapeutic option. In this article we describe two cases of extensive guide catheter induced dissection and their successful treatment using PCI and provide a concise overview of the available literature.