Place of endovascular method in treatment of lesions to the left coronary artery stem

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25512/DIR.2007.01.1.10

For quoting:
Chestukhin V.V., Mironkov B.L., Mironkov A.B., Ryadovoy I.G., Gontuar M.G., Parkhomenko M.V., Pokatilov A.A. "Place of endovascular method in treatment of lesions to the left coronary artery stem". Journal Diagnostic & interventional radiology. 2007; 1(1); 60-65.

authors:

Chestukhin V.V.

Mironkov B.L.

Mironkov A.B.

Ryadovoy I.G.

Gontuar M.G.

Parkhomenko M.V.

Pokatilov A.A.

keywords:

coronary heart disease

lesion of the left coronary artery stem

stenting

Abstract:

Lesions of the LCA stem are found in 2,5-4 % of patients with coronary heart disease who endured coronography, and are accompanied by more severe symptomatology, higher morbidity and mortality rates, and difficulty of radical correction. According to the generally accepted guidelines, the operation of coronary artery bypass has up to now been a method of choice in treatment of the LCA stem. Nevertheless, endovascular methods of treatment for LCA stem lesions have relatively long been used, while implementation into clinical practice of drug-eluding stents has considerably improved the remote outcomes, which made it possible to consider LCA stem stenting as a real alternative to ACB. Hence, the problem concerning indications for and contraindications to LCA stem stenting remains unsolved today. We retrospectively analysed a total of 75 endovascular interventions on the LCA stem in 67 patients, with an isolated lesion of the LCA stem being found only in 7,4 % of the patients. The remaining subjects had lesions of the LCA stem on the background of a multivascular lesion of the coronary bed, including occlusion of the RCA observed in 16,4 % of cases. Successive revascularization was performed in 98,64 % of cases, with no lethal outcomes. One patient required urgent ACB due to development of occluding dissection of the circumflex branch. Complications in the immediate postoperative period were observed in two patients and were represented by non-Q myocardial infarction and stroke. LCA stem stenting proved an efficient and safe method of treatment for coronary heart disease. A comparative analysis of the immediate results of LCA stem stenting and ACB revealed advantages of stenting, consisting in no lethal outcomes (in our series) and a lower short-term rate of postoperative complications.

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