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Primary percutaneous coronary intervention and intravascular ultrasound imaging for coronary thrombosis after cisplatin-based chemotherapy

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Although cisplatin is indispensable for the chemotherapy treatment of many malignancies, cisplatin-associated thrombosis is attracting increasing attention. However, experience of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) for coronary thrombosis, possibly due to cisplatin-based chemotherapy, has been limited. Case 1 with postoperative gastric cancer developed acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on the sixth day of the second chemotherapy course with conventional doses of cisplatin and tegafur gimeracil oteracil potassium. Emergency coronary angiography (CAG) showed a filling defect in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) concomitant with no reflow in the distal LAD. Case 2 with advanced lung cancer and brain metastasis suffered AMI on the fifth day of the first chemotherapy course with conventional doses of cisplatin and gemcitabine. Emergency CAG delineated a total occlusion in the proximal right coronary artery. In both cases, thrombectomy using aspiration catheter alone obtained optimal angiographic results and subsequent IVUS revealed no definite atherosclerotic plaque, while slow flow still remained even after selective intra-coronary infusion of vasodilator in the case 1. These cases suggest that primary PCI using thrombus-aspiration catheter might be safe and effective for coronary thrombosis due to cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Honmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0981, Japan

    Daisuke Ito, Jun Shiraishi, Sho Hashimoto, Masayoshi Kimura, Akihiro Matsui, Hirokazu Yokoi, Hidekazu Irie, Masayuki Hyogo, Takatomo Shima & Yoshio Kohno

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Honmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0981, Japan

    Masayasu Arihara

  3. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University School of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan

    Takeshi Nakamura, Naoki Maruyama, Yumi Iwamura, Akiyoshi Matsumuro, Takahisa Sawada & Hiroaki Matsubara

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Ito, D., Shiraishi, J., Nakamura, T. et al. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention and intravascular ultrasound imaging for coronary thrombosis after cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Heart Vessels 27, 634–638 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-011-0222-5

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