Case Report: A balloon-based technique to remove a pearl-like embolus out of the coronary artery.

ABSTRACT: Coronary embolism is considered a rare non-atherosclerotic etiology of acute myocardial infarction, whereas atrial fibrillation is the main etiology of coronary embolism. We report a rare case of a patient with coronary embolism with a specific pearl-like embolus attributed to atrial fibrillation. For this patient, we used a balloon-based technique to successfully remove the embolus from the coronary artery.

SUBMITTER: Wu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10166827 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature