Artéria coronária única submetida a angioplastia com implante de Stent / Single coronary artery: angioplasty with stent implantation

Relatamos caso de rara anomalia de artéria coronária direita saindo do terço médio da artéria descendente anterior com lesão obstrutiva ateromatosa proximal, imediatamente antes da emergência da coronária direita. O paciente foi submetido a angioplastia com implante de Stent na descendente anterior com sucesso. Há relatos de apenas 7 casos desta anomalia de distribuição na literatura, porém nenhum com tratamento de revascularização percutânea.

Resultados imediatos e seguimento de pacientes uniarteriais versus multiarteriais com idade inferior a 50 anos submetidos a implante de stent coronariano / Comparison of immediate results and follow-up of patients with single-vessel and multivessel coronary artery disease younger than 50 years of age undergoing coronary stent implantation

OBJECTIVE: To assess the in-hospital results and clinical follow-up of young patients (< 50 years) with multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing stent implantation in native coronary arteries and to compare their results with those of patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 462 patients undergoing coronary stent implantation. Patients were divided into 2 groups: group I (G-I) - 388 (84 percent) patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease; and group II (G-II) - 74 (16 percent) patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 45±4.9 years, and the clinical findings at presentation and demographic data were similar in both groups. The rate of clinical success was 95 percent in G-I and 95.8 percent in G-II (P=0.96), with no difference in regard to in-hospital evolution between the groups. Death, acute myocardial infarction, and the need for myocardial revascularization during clinical follow-up occurred in 10.1 percent and 11.2 percent (P=0.92) in G-I and G-II, respectively. By the end of 24 months, the actuarial analysis showed an event-free survival of 84.6 percent in G-I and 81.1 percent in G-II (P=0.57). CONCLUSION: Percutaneous treatment with coronary stent implantation in young patients with multivessel disease may be safe with a high rate of clinical success, a low incidence of in-hospital complications, and a favorable evolution in clinical follow-up