Monopoli Daniel E, Politi Luigi, Sgura Fabio, Rossi Rosario, Modena Maria G, Sangiorgi Giuseppe M
Department of Cardiology, Policlinico University Hospital of Modena, Via del Pozzo 71, 41124, Modena, Italy.
Heart Vessels. 2011 Mar;26(2):222-5. doi: 10.1007/s00380-010-0011-6. Epub 2010 Nov 13.
Double-arterial coronary stent thrombosis in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is an infrequent but severe complication, especially when the third main coronary artery is chronically occluded. The conus artery (CA) can serve as a major source of collateral when the left anterior descendent coronary artery (LAD) becomes obstructed. We report a case of a 48-year-old man presenting with AMI due to a very late double-arterial stent thrombosis (ST) following drug-eluting stent implantation and a chronic occlusion of LAD collateralized by a large anomalous CA, which provided for the entire vascularization of the coronary tree.