Spontaneous occlusion of the left anterior descending artery immediately following coronary angiography

Hakan Özhan,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.175

Hakan Özhan¹, Recai Alemdar¹, Onur Çağlar¹, İsmail Erden¹, Sinan Albayrak¹, Hayati Kandis²

¹Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey
²Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Faculty of Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.175

During coronary angiography of the patients with acute coronary syndrome, exposure of highly thrombogenic subendothelial collagen and local thrombin generation may rarely counteract with the contrast media used resulting promotion of platelet recruitment and degranulation. Final state may result in potentially fatal complications, such as abrupt occlusion of the coronary artery. In this article, a 60-year-old male case with unstable angina who had developed spontaneous occlusion of the left anterior descending artery immediately following coronary angiography.

Keywords : Angiography; coronary artery; spontaneous occlusion

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