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Coronary artery perforation: a rare complication of coronary angiography
T Timurkaynak1, H Ciftci, M Cemri
1Gazi University Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey. ttimurkaynak@superonline.com
Acta Cardiologica
|November 20, 2001
Abstract:
We report perforation of two side branches of the right coronary artery during selective coronary angiography. We suppose that forceful injection of contrast into a non-dominant artery with severe proximal stenosis could have led to this complication. To the best of our knowledge this is the second reported case of coronary perforation during angiography.