Recurrent Stent Thrombosis After Rescue Angioplasty

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  • Periklis A. Davlouros

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https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v3i1%20sup.122

Abstract

A 70-year-old woman with hypertension and family history of coronary artery disease (CAD) was admitted with acute chest pain to Kalavrita general hospital. ECG was compatible with an anterior wall STEMI. The patient was on Killip class III heart failure. Thrombolysis (reteplase) was administered along with diuretics,heparine, ASA, clopidogrel, nitroglycerin and an ACE inhibitor. However the chest pain persisted as did the ST elevation. She developed cardiac arrest (VF), from which she was successfully resuscitated and transferred to the next larger on call hospital (???Agios Andreas?? general hospital) in Patras. The chest pain persisted and the patient was next transferred to Patras University Hospital for possible rescue angioplasty.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 sup (2008)

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Athens Cardiology Update 2008

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