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Farshad Forouzandeh1,2, John S Douglas2
1University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Abstract:
After an unsuccessful left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in an outside hospital, a patient presented with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The patient was found to have LIMA occlusion and underwent a second PCI. However, there was a residual disruption of LIMA, subsequently, the patient was found to have complete LIMA recanalization, which emphasized the self-reparative nature of LIMA. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).
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