Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2021)

Novel strategy for ostial left anterior descending artery acute myocardial infarction: Combined treatment with directional coronary atherectomy followed by drug‐coated balloon angioplasty

  • Hiroyuki Yamamoto,
  • Takahiro Sawada,
  • Tomofumi Takaya,
  • Hiroya Kawai,
  • Yoshinori Yasaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3659
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 1095 – 1100

Abstract

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Abstract A 69‐year‐old female diagnosed with ostial left anterior descending artery acute myocardial infarction underwent percutaneous coronary intervention using combined directional coronary atherectomy followed by drug‐coated balloon angioplasty. This report highlights a novel management strategy with no permanent scaffold left in the coronary artery.

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