
Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Salvages a Patient with Recurrent Acute Coronary Syndrome and Ischaemic Heart Failure with Multiple Life Threatening Co-morbidities: A Case Report
Correspondence Address :Dr. Brajesh Kunwar,
Fortis Hospital, Navi Mumbai, Maharastra, India.
E-mail: Kunwar_brajesh@yahoo.com
More than 422 million people are suffering from Diabetes Mellitus (DM) worldwide. Majority of the affected population resides in lower and middle income countries. This chronic, metabolic disease gradually does serious damage to heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves; eventually causing cardiovascular diseases, peripheral vascular diseases, retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Here, a rare case of a 58-year-old male was present who had history of uncontrolled DM with dry gangrene in right forefoot, acute kidney injury and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) involving Left Main (LM) bifurcation presented with recurrent acute coronary syndrome with heart failure. Patient in view of multiple co-morbidities was unfit for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) was managed successfully with complex coronary intervention involving LM bifurcation.
Bifurcation, Coronary artery disease, Dry gangrene, Left main, Nephropathy
10.7860/JCDR/2021/47184.14709
Date of Submission: Oct 13, 2020
Date of Peer Review: Dec 30, 2020
Date of Acceptance: Jan 28, 2021
Date of Publishing: Apr 01, 2021
AUTHOR DECLARATION:
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• Was informed consent obtained from the subjects involved in the study? Yes
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