ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to acute occlusion of the right coronary artery and con- comitant very late stent thrombosis in the left circumflex artery

Henryk Dreger, Karl Stangl, Martin Möckel

Abstract


We report on a 72-year-old patient who presented with a STEMI due to acute occlusion of the right coronary artery and concomitant late stent thrombosis in the left circumflex artery. Notably, acute thrombus formation occurred in stents that had been implanted in the LCx nine years before the current event. We conclude that STEMI patients are in a hypercoagulant state and therefore prone to very late stent thrombosis which requires adequate awareness of the interventionist.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/crim.v2n1p41

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Case Reports in Internal Medicine

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