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Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn
; 43(4): 457-9, 1998 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9554780
ABSTRACT
We report a case of coronary embolism in a 63-year-old woman with St. Jude aortic and mitral valve replacements who presented with acute myocardial infarction. Urgent catheterization revealed a saddle embolus in the proximal part of the circumflex and ramus arteries and another embolus in a diagonal branch. After employing angioplasty for the totally occluding diagonal embolus, a combined regimen of intracoronary urokinase and intravenous abciximab was successful in achieving complete resolution of the emboli.