Silent Intraoperative Right Coronary Artery Occlusion at a Prior Stent Site Progressing to Ventricular Fibrillation During Hip Hemiarthroplasty: A Case Report
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Wei Wang, Qun Wan, Zhiying Yu, Zongmei Yang, Lin Ba · 2026
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Description
Alexander Muacevic and six colleagues present a case of silent heart artery blockage during hip surgery in an eighty-six-year-old woman. She had a prior stent in her right coronary artery, and her blood thinner had been paused for a week before the hip repair.
During the operation the monitor showed climbing ST segments before pulse or pressure faltered, a change the anesthesia nurse verified and escalated. Her heart then fibrillated repeatedly during emergency transfer, until angiography found the old stent site clotted shut and a new stent restored full flow. She walked before discharge on day fifteen. The authors present the sequence descriptively, without claiming any single step saved her.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Wei Wang, Qun Wan, Zhiying Yu, Zongmei Yang, Lin Ba |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |