Primary percutaneous coronary intervention during ST elevation myocardial infarction in prosthetic valve endocarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infective endocarditis (IE) is still a condition with high mortality and morbidity, especially in the elderly, and in patients with prosthetic valves. The concept of "time-to-therapy" plays a key role for the prompt management of IE and related complications, and the currently available multimodality imaging may play a key role in this setting. Myocardial ischemia due to extrinsic coronary compression from an aortic abscess is an extremely rare condition where the optimal therapeutic strategy has not been defined yet. We present herein the first case of a patient with ST elevation myocardial infarction caused by an aortic root abscess treated with percutaneous stent implantation.

Case presentation

An 82-year-old woman with a history of atrial fibrillation, chronic

SUBMITTER: Campanile A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature