Natural cardiac death after stent implantation with iatrogenic injury of a coronary artery
We report a case of a 75-year-old woman with a complaint of intermittent angina pectoris who underwent cardiac catheterization. Intra-interventionally, coronary artery dissection occurred and was stabilized by the placement of two stents. After this procedure, the patient suffered from chest pain. At 5.5 h after the procedure ended, the woman suddenly and unexpectedly died. At forensic autopsy, a hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade was found to have been caused by the rupture of a myocardial infarction that was several days old and had remained clinically unrecognized. This case report illustra tes the importance of forensic autopsies in terms of external quality assurance in medicine.
Source: Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology - Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: research
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