Coronary embolism causing myocardial infarction in a patient with mechanical aortic valve prosthesis

Thrombotic occlusion of a left main coronary artery in a patient with prosthetic mitral valve

“…They performed only thrombus aspiration to 2 cases and aspiration with subsequent stenting to 1 case successfully (3). A small number of case reports demonstrated AMI due to CE in patients with valvular prosthesis (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). In a case with mitral valve prosthesis and AMI due to CE, Doğan et al (4) performed thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasminogen activator successfully.…”

Clinical analysis of acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary embolism

“…Furthermore, the consequences of embolism are related to the size of the emboli and diameter of the embolized vessels (13,14). Coronary artery embolism events can easily occur in patients after cardiac valve replacement, chronic atrial fibrillation, dilated cardiomyopathy, infective endocarditis, intracardiac shunts, cardiac myxoma, mural thrombus and hypercoagulative state (15)(16)(17)(18). Most emboli would fall to the left coronary artery system, due to the shape and flow characteristics of the aortic valve (19).…”

Acute Myocardial Infarction due to Coronary Artery Embolism in a Patient with a Tissue Aortic Valve Replacement

“…24 Conversely, catheter aspiration embolectomy (as used in this case), has been successfully employed by several authors to aspirate thrombus from a native coronary artery. 8,[25][26][27][28] In our case, following successful aspiration thrombectomy of the clot, the patient was continued on unfractionated heparin (as a bridge to anticoagulation) and started on warfarin to decrease the risk of further thromboembolic events.…”