Journal of Vasculitis

Department of Cardiology, EHS Draa Ben Khedda, PXH9+373, Draâ Ben Khedda, Algeria

Publications

• Case Report   
  Post-cardiac Injury Syndrome after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Case Report
  Author(s): Nassime Zaoui*, Sabrina Benamara, Amina Boukabous and Nabil Irid
  
  Coronary angioplasty can be complicated by pericarditis which can appear at distance or more rarely early after the procedure, especially in the event of a mechanical complication of this procedure such as coronary artery perforation. Summary of the case: We report the case of a patient who presented with early pericarditis after angioplasty complicated by coronary perforation. It is about a 58-year-old patient admitted for angioplasty of a chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery; the angioplasty resulted in a coronary perforation through the guidewire 0.014. The patient remained asymptomatic and hemodynamically stable. Faced with the failure to exclude the perforation by balloon inflation, we decided to perform a distal fat embolization to seal the perforation. Twelve hours after the procedure, the patient presented wi.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2471-9544.2024.10.222

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