Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy

We present a case of a coronary arteriovenous fistula between the left circumflex (LCX) and the atrium with LCX ectasia. Four months after surgical closure of the fistula, the patient experienced acute myocardial infarction caused by thrombosis in the LCX. Antiplatelet drugs were replaced with antic...

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Autores principales: Meng, Liping, Zhang, Peng, Peng, Fang, Wang, Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Mini-Focus Issue: Procedural Complications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9207945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35734522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.04.012
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description We present a case of a coronary arteriovenous fistula between the left circumflex (LCX) and the atrium with LCX ectasia. Four months after surgical closure of the fistula, the patient experienced acute myocardial infarction caused by thrombosis in the LCX. Antiplatelet drugs were replaced with anticoagulant agents, and the patient was followed up without adverse events. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-92079452022-06-21 Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy Meng, Liping Zhang, Peng Peng, Fang Wang, Ping JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Procedural Complications We present a case of a coronary arteriovenous fistula between the left circumflex (LCX) and the atrium with LCX ectasia. Four months after surgical closure of the fistula, the patient experienced acute myocardial infarction caused by thrombosis in the LCX. Antiplatelet drugs were replaced with anticoagulant agents, and the patient was followed up without adverse events. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9207945/ /pubmed/35734522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.04.012 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title_full Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title_fullStr Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title_short Acute Myocardial Infarction After Surgical Closure of Coronary Artery Fistula: Importance of Anticoagulant Therapy
title_sort acute myocardial infarction after surgical closure of coronary artery fistula: importance of anticoagulant therapy
topic Mini-Focus Issue: Procedural Complications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9207945/
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