Cor Vasa 2011, 53(11):658-662 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2011.163

Recurrent acute myocardial infarction affecting simultaneously the left circumflex coronary artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery

Radek Jančár*, Kamil Novobílský
Kardiologické oddělení Městské nemocnice Ostrava, Ostrava, Česká republika

Ischemic heart disease (IHD), representing one manifestation of general atherosclerosis affecting the arteries in the entire organism, is being increasingly considered a systemic disease with multifactorial causes and multiple subsequent mechanisms, which are complementary and potentiate each other both during the development and during the progression of the disease. There have been several descriptions in the literature of the presence of more than one unstable coronary plaque at the time of acute coronary syndrome. It is for this reason, along with the implantation of coronary stents, why long-term dual antiaggregation is necessary in patients after acute myocardial infarction. We present a case study of a patient who has been repeatedly treated at our coronary unit for acute coronary syndrome.

Keywords: Ischemic heart disease; Acute myocardial infarction with ST elevations; Multiple unstable atherosclerotic plaques

Published: November 1, 2011  Show citation

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Jančár R, Novobílský K. Recurrent acute myocardial infarction affecting simultaneously the left circumflex coronary artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery. Cor Vasa. 2011;53(11):658-662. doi: 10.33678/cor.2011.163.
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