December 18th, 2009
Deciding When to Bridge
Anju Nohria, MD and James Fang, MD
A 61-year-old man presented with 6 hours of chest pain and ECG changes consistent with an acute anterior-wall myocardial infarction. His cardiac troponin I was 59 ng/mL. Urgent angiography revealed an occluded LAD and 70% proximal OM1, 70% proximal OM2, and 90% proximal RCA stenoses. He was taken to the catheterization laboratory, where an attempt to open the […]
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