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We describe a patient who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention combined with bilateral iliac and left renal artery angioplasty during the same sitting. Stenting of the coronary and peripheral arteries was performed employing the "direct stenting" technique. No complications occurred. The patient was discharged 2 days after the intervention and remains asymptomatic, leading a fully active life during 1 year of follow-up. To our knowledge, unstaged coronary stenting combined with direct stenting of the renal and both common iliac arteries has not been reported previously in India.
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Anciano , Angioplastia de Balón , Angioplastia Coronaria con Balón , Arteriosclerosis/diagnóstico por imagen , Femenino , Humanos , Arteria Ilíaca/diagnóstico por imagen , Obstrucción de la Arteria Renal/diagnóstico por imagen , StentsAsunto(s)
Adulto , Aorta Torácica/diagnóstico por imagen , Arteriopatías Oclusivas/complicaciones , Cesárea , Femenino , Humanos , Embarazo , Complicaciones Cardiovasculares del Embarazo/diagnóstico por imagen , Resultado del Embarazo , Arteritis de Takayasu/complicaciones , Ultrasonografía PrenatalRESUMEN
This study was carried out to assess the utility of serum troponin-T estimation in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). One hundred and twenty two consecutive patients presenting with Q wave myocardial infarction were included in the study. In patients with AMI, serum troponin-T level was significantly elevated (4.21 +/- 3.49 ng/ml) on the first day of AMI (normal = 0.1 ng/ml). The elevated serum levels were detected even on the second (4.82 +/- 3.01 ng/ml) and the 3rd day (5.83 +/- 3.83 ng/ml) of AMI. Our results thus indicate that serum troponin-T is elevated twenty eight folds on the first day of AMI and the levels remain elevated as long as the third day. Hence, troponin-T can be used as sensitive biochemical marker of AMI, both in the immediate as well as in the early phase of myocardial infarction.