Balloon angioplasty treatment in inferior acute coronary syndrome secondary to undiagnosed papillary fibroelastoma

Abstract

A patient presented with typical cardiac chest pain on electrocardiogram (ECG) was found to have a ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography found normal coronary arteries; however, the symptoms and ECG findings were cause by an undiagnosed papillary fibroelastoma externally occluding the coronary artieries. Treatment was done via a balloon angioplasty and later by surgery.

Keywords

• coronary angiography
• papillary fibroelastoma
• st-elevation myocardial infarction