You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in cardiology
Strategies for the management of massive intra-coronary thrombus in acute myocardial infarction
  1. John Rawlins,
  2. Nalyaka Sambu,
  3. Peter O'Kane
  1. Cardiac Intervention Unit, Department of Cardiology, Dorset Heart Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Peter O'Kane, Cardiac Intervention Unit, Department of Cardiology, Dorset Heart Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane East, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 7DW, UK; peter.o'kane{at}rbch.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303370

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    A 52-year-old man presented with an inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography demonstrated an occluded right coronary artery with massive thrombus burden (figure 1A). Aspirin, Prasurgrel and Bivallirudin were administered for transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

    Figure 1

    Series of angiographic stills that demonstrate: (A) Occluded dominant right coronary artery with a massive intracoronary thrombus (Black arrows). (B) Establishment of TIMI 2 flow following excimer laser atherectomy. (C) Final result after treatment with three drug-eluting stents with …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors All authors have been equally involved in the preparation and submission of this manuscript.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.