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Case Report: COVID-19 exacerbates acute lower limb ischemia in patients with popliteal artery entrapment syndrome

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

In addition, with the prevalence of COVID-19 infection, more and more studies report that COVID-19 infection may lead to arteriovenous thrombosis, which could cause lower limb ischemia. Clinically, they are mainly seen in the form of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES).

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Abstract 087: Cocaine?Induced Acute Spinal Cord Ischemia Syndrome

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

IntroductionAcute spinal cord ischemia syndrome (ASCIS) is a rare disease that is thought to comprise roughly only 1.2% The mechanism is thought to be multifactorial due vasospasm, cerebral vasculitis, vascular thrombosis, cardioembolism from cocaine‐induced myocardial infarction or cardiomyopathy, and hypertensive surges [9].

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Risk factors, prevention, and therapy of intraluminal stent thrombosis in frozen elephant trunk prostheses—what we know so far

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

In this phenomenon, a thrombus forms within the lumen of the stent graft component of the frozen elephant trunk prosthesis and puts the patient at risk for downstream embolization with visceral or lower limb ischemia.

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Coronary Angiography, Intravascular Ultrasound, and Optical Coherence Tomography in the Guidance of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.

Circulation

The secondary outcomes included ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization, target vessel myocardial infarction, death, cardiac death, target vessel revascularization, stent thrombosis, and major adverse cardiac events. OCT was associated with a significant reduction of stent thrombosis compared with ICA (OR, 0.49 [95% CI, 0.26–0.92])

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Elder Male with Syncope

EMS 12-Lead

Many of the changes seen are reminiscent of LVH with “strain,” and downstream Echo may very well corroborate such a suspicion, but since the ECG isn’t the best tool for definitively establishing the presence of LVH, we must favor a subendocardial ischemia pattern, instead. Type I ischemia. Type II ischemia.

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Immediate vs. multistage revascularization of non-infarct coronary artery(-ies) in patients with hemodynamically stable multivessel disease acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Coronary Artery Disease Journal

Background Untreated multivessel disease (MVD) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been linked to a higher risk of recurrent ischemia and death within one year. The immediate non-IRA PCI is associated with a significantly lower occurrence of unplanned ischemia-driven PCI (OR 0.60; confidence interval [CI] 0.44–0.83)

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What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This suggests further severe ischemia. MINOCA may be due to: coronary spasm, coronary microvascular dysfunction, plaque disruption, spontaneous coronary thrombosis/emboli , and coronary dissection; myocardial disorders, including myocarditis, takotsubo cardiomyopathy, and other cardiomyopathies. And yet the arteries remain open.