Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Distal embolization case 18
Introduction
Distal Embolization
Distal Embolization
Pre-intervention
Shown below is a pre-intervention angiogram with significant lesion in the proximal LAD.
 |
 |
Intervention
Shown below is an angiogram with ongoing intervention on the significant lesion described above.
 |
Post-intervention
Shown below is a post-intervention angiogram with abrupt cutoff at the distal part of LAD due to distal embolization.
 |
 |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hardik Patel, M.D., Sapan Patel M.B.B.S