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Acute right coronary artery embolus after aortic valve surgery
Mouhcine Abid-Allah1, Khalid Al Jubair
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. obaidmuhcin@hotmail.com
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
A 35-year-old man with rheumatic aortic valve regurgitation developed acute right ventricular failure 8 days after valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis. Angiography showed a right coronary artery embolus. Successful coronary artery bypass grafting was performed on the beating heart.