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Internal mammary artery injury during percutaneous coronary intervention: a case report
Zhicong Zeng1, Yaqin Chen2, Yinzhi Song1
1Cardiology Department, Affiliated Baoan TCM Hospital, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No.25, Yuan Second Road, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Background:
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is widely used to treat coronary artery disease (CAD). However, complications of PCI are inevitable. Internal mammary artery (IMA) injury is an infrequent but potentially lethal complication of PCI.
Case Presentation:
A 78-year-old man was diagnosed with multivessel lesions by coronary angiography. The IMA was injured during PCI, then cured by early identification and active rescue.
Conclusions:
This is the first reported case, to our knowledge, of injury to the IMA during PCI. We we report this case to discuss how to treat this injury effectively and avoid this complication during clinical therapy.
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