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A lotus root-like appearance in both the left anterior descending and right coronary arteries

Authors :
Tomohiro Sakamoto
Hiroto Suzuyama
Shinzo Miyamoto
Masayoshi Yoshida
Yoshihiro Kotono
Koichi Nakao
Kazuhiro Nishigami
Hiromu Kadowaki
Eiji Taguchi
Source :
Heart and Vessels. 31:124-128
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014.

Abstract

A 60-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of dyspnea on exertion. He was diagnosed with heart failure due to an old myocardial infarction. Myocardial stress perfusion scintigraphy revealed inducible myocardial ischemia. Coronary angiography revealed hazy slit lesions in both the left anterior descending (LAD) and right coronary arteries (RCA). We first performed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on the LAD lesion. Subsequently, we performed PCI for the RCA lesion using multiple imaging modalities. We observed a lotus root-like appearance in both the LAD and RCA, and PCI was successful for both vessels. We describe this rare case in detail.

Details

ISSN :
16152573 and 09108327
Volume :
31
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Heart and Vessels
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....dd7350f604193d34aaeb30d9d7591110