Author(s)

Puneeth Shridhar¹, Triston Smith², Ramzi Khalil³, Gustav Eles³, David Lasorda³, Young Jae Chun^1,4,5

¹Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
²Department of Cardiology, Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling, USA.
³Department of Cardiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA.
⁴Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
⁵McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty is often used as a palliative measure or as a bridge to transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the management of aortic stenosis in high risk or inoperable patients. Severe aortic stenosis coexisting with coronary artery dis-ease is not uncommon. In these circumstances, adjuvant percutaneous coronary intervention may be warranted. The safety and efficacy of combined valve and coronary intervention strategies has been recently studied. An increased incidence of complications when both procedures are performed in the same setting may throw new challenges. We report a case of fatal acute stent thrombosis following balloon aortic valvuloplasty and percutaneous coronary intervention.

Stent Thrombosis, Aortic Valvuloplasty, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Shridhar, P. , Smith, T. , Khalil, R. , Eles, G. , Lasorda, D. and Chun, Y. (2016) Acute Stent Thrombosis Following Concomitant Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 6, 333-337. doi: 10.4236/wjcd.2016.610038.