Incidence and Impact of Totally Occluded Culprit Coronary Arteries in Patients Presenting With Non–ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Warren ◽  
Roxana Mehran ◽  
Jennifer Yu ◽  
Ke Xu ◽  
Michel E. Bertrand ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 263246362110155
Author(s):  
Pankaj Jariwala ◽  
Shanehyder Zaidi ◽  
Kartik Jadhav

Simultaneous ST-segment elevation (SST-SE) in anterior and inferior leads in the setting of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is often confounding for a cardiologist and further more challenging is the angiographic localization of the culprit vessel. SST-SE can be fatal as it jeopardizes simultaneously a larger area of myocardium. This phenomenon could be due to “one lesion, one artery,” “two lesions, one artery,” “two lesions, two arteries,” or combinations in two different coronary arteries. We have discussed an index case where we encountered a phenomenon of SST-SE and coronary angiography demonstrated “two lesions, one artery” (proximal occlusion and distal critical diffuse stenoses of the wrap-around left anterior descending [LAD] artery) and “two lesions, two (different coronary) arteries” (previously mentioned stenoses of the LAD artery and critical stenosis of the posterolateral branch of the right coronary arteries). We have also described in brief the possible causes of this phenomena and their electroangiographic correlation of the culprit vessels.


Author(s):  
Ana Rita G. Francisco ◽  
José Duarte ◽  
Miguel Nobre Menezes ◽  
José Marques da Costa ◽  
Pedro Canas da Silva ◽  
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