Case Report: A balloon-based technique to remove a pearl-like embolus out of the coronary artery

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Coronary embolism is considered a rare non-atherosclerotic etiology of acute myocardial infarction, whereas atrial fibrillation is the main etiology of coronary embolism. We report a rare case of a patient with coronary embolism with a specific pearl-like embolus attributed to atrial fibrillation. For this patient, we used a balloon-based technique to successfully remove the embolus from the coronary artery.

Keywords

• acute myocardial infarction
• coronary embolism
• atrial fibrillation
• embolus
• aspiration thrombectomy