Emergency Medicine: Open Access
Open Access

Abstract

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Acute Left Main Occlusion

Yuzhou, Gang Zhao, Yaoming Song, Jun Jin, Xiaohui Zhao and Lan Huang

Acute myocardial infarction (MI) due to left main coronary artery occlusion in the absence of collateral circulation is extremely rare, but carries a very high mortality rate. Survival is dependent on the dominant right coronary artery, collateral blood flow to the left coronary artery and rapid revascularization.