%0 Journal Article
%T A Practical Approach to the Percutaneous Treatment of Iatrogenic Aorto-coronary Dissection
%A George Kassimis
%A Tushar Raina
%J Archive of "The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.2174/1874192401812010050
%X Catheter-induced aortic dissection during coronary angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is a relatively infrequent, but potentially life-threatening complication. Patients who suffer this complication may require emergency aortic surgery. More recently, reports of treating the ostium of the dissected coronary artery have emerged as an alternative therapeutic option. In this article we describe two cases of extensive guide catheter induced dissection and their successful treatment using PCI and provide a concise overview of the available literature
%K Iatrogenic
%K Aortic dissection
%K Cardiac catheterization
%K Percutaneous coronary intervention
%K Acute coronary syndromes
%K Guiding catheter
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925861/