Abstract
We report the case of a 50-year-old male patient with hypertension, peripheral artery disease, history of smoking and drug abuse and a hypercoagulability state, who underwent several percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedures for ST-elevation myocardial infarction first and for stents thrombosis then, complicated with sepsis, epistenocardic pericarditis, left ventricle aneurism and coronary stent abscess which required an emergency surgical treatment.
Publisher
Athenaeum Scientific Publishers
Subject
General Medicine,General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Medicine,Ocean Engineering,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Medicine
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