Percutaneous Treatment of a Circumflex Artery Occlusion After Minimally Invasive Barlow Disease Mitral Valve Repair

Victor Arévalos, MD; Luis Ortega-Paz, MD, PhD; Daniel Pereda, MD, PhD; Elena Sandoval, MD; Salvatore Brugaletta, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2021)

Percutaneous Treatment of a Circumflex Artery Occlusion After Minimally Invasive Barlow Disease Mitral Valve Repair

Victor Arévalos, MD,
Luis Ortega-Paz, MD, PhD,
Daniel Pereda, MD, PhD,
Elena Sandoval, MD,
Salvatore Brugaletta, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Victor Arévalos, MD: Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Biomedical Investigation Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Luis Ortega-Paz, MD, PhD: Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Biomedical Investigation Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Daniel Pereda, MD, PhD: Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Biomedical Investigation Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Elena Sandoval, MD: Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Biomedical Investigation Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Salvatore Brugaletta, MD, PhD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Salvatore Brugaletta, Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain.; Clinic Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic, Biomedical Investigation Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 173 – 176

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Injury of the circumflex artery is an uncommon but dangerous complication during mitral valve surgery. We report the case of a patient who presented an occlusion of the circumflex artery after a minimally invasive mitral valve repair, which was treated with angioplasty in the immediate post-operative period. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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