Back to Search
Start Over
Aortic Dissection With Complete Occlusion of Left Main Coronary Artery Presenting as Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
- Source :
- Cureus
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cureus, Inc., 2021.
-
Abstract
- Acute Aortic Dissection (AAD) is a life-threatening condition, which presents with a wide variety of symptoms ranging from being asymptomatic to sudden cardiac death. A retrograde extension of AAD can lead to partial or complete occlusion of coronary vessels, leading to an exceedingly rare presentation in the form of acute Myocardial Infarction (MI). A prognosis of AAD depends on prompt diagnosis and urgent surgical intervention to re-establish coronary blood flow. Here, we report a case of AAD, presenting as acute anterolateral wall MI, due to total occlusion of the left main coronary artery.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Cardiology
Asymptomatic
Sudden cardiac death
Internal medicine
medicine
Myocardial infarction
aortic dissection
Aortic dissection
left main stem occlusion
business.industry
General Engineering
Blood flow
medicine.disease
stemi
myocardial infarction
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Emergency Medicine
coronary angiography
medicine.symptom
Presentation (obstetrics)
business
Artery
Retrograde extension
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21688184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cureus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....55dbca854ff07ad6c2ee6a469d71ee01