You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Electronic pages
Acute myocardial infarction caused by a septic coronary embolism diagnosed and treated with a thrombectomy catheter
  1. M Taniike,
  2. M Nishino,
  3. Y Egami,
  4. I Kondo,
  5. R Shutta,
  6. K Tanaka,
  7. T Adachi,
  8. J Tanouchi,
  9. Y Yamada,
  10. K Kawano
  1. Division of Cardiology and Clinical Pathology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Osaka, Japan
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Masami Nishino
    Division of Cardiology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, 1179-3, Nagasone-cho, Sakai-city, Osaka 591-8025, Japan; mnishinoorh.go.jp

Abstract

Acute myocardial infarctions are common in bacteraemia but are seldom diagnosed during life. A 64 year old man with severe chest pain who had fever for several days due to possible bacteraemia was shown by ECG and echocardiography to have possible lateral infarction. Immediate coronary angiography showed possible thrombus in the left circumflex artery, which was treated by thrombectomy catheter. Bacterial thrombus was removed and was verified by histological examination. A stent was implanted without complications. Acute myocardial infarction caused by septic embolism is usually fatal; however, thrombectomy may be useful in these cases.

  • acute coronary syndrome
  • bacterial embolism
  • myocardial infarction
  • septic coronary embolism
  • thrombectomy

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2004.055046

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.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    Linked Articles