Murat Akçay, Metin Çoksevim, Ufuk Yıldırım, Ömer Gedikli, Okan Gülel, Serkan Yüksel, Murat Meriç, Korhan Soylu, Özcan Yılmaz, Mahmut Şahin
Thrombotic coronary artery occlusions usually manifest as acute coronary syndrome with cardiogenic shock, acute pulmonary edema, cardiac arrest, fatal arrhythmias, or sudden cardiac death. Although it usually occurs based on atherosclerosis, it can also occur without atherosclerosis. There is no predictor of coronary artery thrombosis clinically and no consensus regarding the optimal treatment. In the current literature, treatment options include emergency coronary artery bypass grafting, entrapment of thrombus in vessel wall with stent implantation, intracoronary thrombolysis, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, anticoagulation with heparin, and thrombus aspiration as reperfusion strategies...
April 2022: Anatolian Journal of Cardiology