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Case Reports
. 2015 Sep;15(9):765-6.
doi: 10.5152/AnatolJCardiol.2015.6449.

Achilles' heel of coil occlusion procedure: Anticoagulant therapy

Levent Cerit  1 , Hamza Duygu, Kamil Gülşen, Barçın Özcem
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Case Reports

Achilles' heel of coil occlusion procedure: Anticoagulant therapy

Levent Cerit et al. Anatol J Cardiol. 2015 Sep.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
a-d. A large side branch originating from the left internal mammary artery (a), cessation of the side branch of the left internal mammary artery flow (b), recanalization of the side branch of the left internal mammary artery (c), a figure showing ischemia on the anterolateral region before the procedure (d)
Figure 2
Figure 2
a-d. Detachment of the proximal part of the coil attachment apparatus (a), implantation of drug-eluting stent (b), cessation of the side branch of the left internal mammary artery flow (c), disappearance of ischemia following coil occlusion on myocardial scintigraphy (d)
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