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Category 1 : Sudden narrowing of a coronary artery due to ACS (plaque rupture with thrombosis and/or downstream showering of platelet-fibrin aggregates. It’s judicious, then, to arrange for coronaryangiogram. CoronaryAngiogram 1. This results in Type I MI. She was urgently taken to the Cath Lab.
Only after her troponin peaked at 500,000 ng/L did she get her angiogram, which showed a 100% left main occlusion due to ruptured plaque. Young people can suffer acute coronary occlusion, whether by typical atherosclerotic plaque rupture, or by coronary anomalies, coronary aneurysms, dissections, spasm, etc.
We investigated the incidence of an acutely occluded coronary in patients presenting with STE-aVR with multi-lead ST depression. All electrocardiograms (ECGs) and coronaryangiograms were blindly analyzed by experienced cardiologists.
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