Carotid artery stenting prior to coronary artery bypass graft surgery inpatients with left-main-coronary-artery disease

Indian Heart J. 2006 Mar-Apr;58(2):160-3.

Abstract

Patients with concomitant carotid and left main or left main equivalent coronary artery disease are at high risk of both cardiac and cerebrovascular complications when they undergo revascularization procedures. Here, we present case reports of three patients who successfully underwent elective carotid stenting prior to coronary artery bypass surgery. Any sort of intervention in these patients is fraught with high risk due to the severity of their carotid and coronary artery disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carotid Stenosis / epidemiology
  • Carotid Stenosis / therapy*
  • Comorbidity
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Artery Bypass*
  • Coronary Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Stenosis / epidemiology
  • Coronary Stenosis / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Stents*
  • Stroke / prevention & control