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EX filter wire usage in stenting right coronary artery lesion with diffuse aneurysmal dilatation
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A 63 year old man was transferred to our hospital in an emergency following the onset of chest pain two hours previously. The ECG showed normal sinus rhythm with ST segment elevation in the anterolateral leads. He had a history of active Crohn’s disease.
An urgent cardiac catheterisation revealed a 99% mid-left anterior descending artery (LAD) stenosis (culprit lesion) and a 99% stenosis of an aneurysmal right coronary artery (RCA) …