Single coronary artery presenting as acute myocardial infarction
Alfonso Jurado-Román1, Ignacio Sánchez-Pérez1, Fernando Lozano-Ruíz-Poveda1
1Interventional Cardiology Department, University General Hospital of Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Abstract:
A single coronary artery is one of the most rarely seen coronary artery anomalies. In addition, the specific subtype (Lipton RII-A) that our patient presented is one of the least common, and its clinical presentation as myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest has not been described in the literature. The case shows that although it is essential to exclude a malignant interarterial course of the vessel, cardiac arrest is a possible clinical presentation produced by myocardial ischemia in the context of acute myocardial infarction and should be managed according to clinical practice guidelines.
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