It was reported that obstruction, cardiac arrest, and patient death occurred.The patient presented with severe chest pain and in cardiogenic shock with blood pressure (bp) 80/60 mm/hg.Angiography revealed a chronic total occlusion (cto) of the right coronary artery (rca) and a 100% occlusion in the left anterior descending artery (lad) with distal thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) score of 0.A percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was performed on the 100% stenosed left anterior descending artery (lad) which was calcified and tortuous.Two promus element plus stents, 2.75 x 24mm and 2.50x16mm, were deployed in the lad.Post deployment, the patient had slow flow and went into cardiac arrest.Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) was performed for thirty minutes but the patient was unable to be revived.
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