TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful reperfusion with a percutaneous aspiration thrombectomy device, TVAC™, in a case of acute inferior myocardial infarction due to occlusion of the distal segment of the dilated right coronary artery
AU - Higashikuni, Yasutomi
AU - Ikari, Yuji
AU - Nakajima, Hiroyoshi
AU - Tanabe, Kengo
AU - Nakayama, Tomohiro
AU - Miyazawa, Akiyoshi
AU - Hatori, Mitsuharu
AU - Kyono, Hiroyuki
AU - Nakazawa, Gaku
AU - Tanimoto, Shuzo
AU - Amiya, Eisuke
AU - Onuma, Yoshinobu
AU - Hara, Kazuhiro
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - A 37-year-old man was admitted for acute MI. An emergent coronary angiogram showed a marked dilatation of the right coronary artery and a characteristic feature of thrombotic occlusion in the distal segment. We performed percutaneous aspiration thrombectomy using a TVAC™ (NIPRO Corporation). Successful revascularization was achieved with the TVAC™ alone. The aspirated particles were red thrombi. Intravascular ultrasound after the intervention revealed neither intimal plaque nor plaque rupture in the lesion segment. Because of its good trackability, pushability, and crossability, TVAC™ may be very useful in the treatment of acute MI when the lesion is located in the distal segment, and it contains large amounts of thrombi.
AB - A 37-year-old man was admitted for acute MI. An emergent coronary angiogram showed a marked dilatation of the right coronary artery and a characteristic feature of thrombotic occlusion in the distal segment. We performed percutaneous aspiration thrombectomy using a TVAC™ (NIPRO Corporation). Successful revascularization was achieved with the TVAC™ alone. The aspirated particles were red thrombi. Intravascular ultrasound after the intervention revealed neither intimal plaque nor plaque rupture in the lesion segment. Because of its good trackability, pushability, and crossability, TVAC™ may be very useful in the treatment of acute MI when the lesion is located in the distal segment, and it contains large amounts of thrombi.
KW - Distal lesion of the dilated right coronary artery
KW - Percutaneous aspiration thrombectomy
KW - TVAC™
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/21744450977
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21744450977
SN - 0914-8922
VL - 20
SP - 243
EP - 246
JO - Japanese Journal of Interventional Cardiology
JF - Japanese Journal of Interventional Cardiology
IS - 3
ER -