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SUBMITTER: Kaya E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063649 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaya Esra E Iwata Hiroshi H Miyazaki Sakiko S Mattson Peter C PC Takamura Kazuhisa K Nishiyama Hiroki H Okai Iwao I Okazaki Shinya S Daida Hiroyuki H
CJC open 20190530 4
This report describes a 46-year-old woman with ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Because continuous chest pain and ST-segment elevation in electrocardiography indicated ongoing cardiac ischemia, the urgent revascularization strategy was used using a novel method of cutting balloon angioplasty, "the pull-back of inflated cutting balloon," which led to the successful coronary flow restoration and complete healing of dissected coronary artery in 1 yea ...[more]