Lotus root-like appearance in the left anterior descending artery treated with a drug-coated balloon angioplasty

Wataru Takagi; Tomoaki Okada; Kazumasa Nosaka; Toru Miyoshi; Masayuki Doi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6028

Lotus root-like appearance in the left anterior descending artery treated with a drug-coated balloon angioplasty

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Jul 18;10(7):e6028. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6028. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Authors

Wataru Takagi¹, Tomoaki Okada¹, Kazumasa Nosaka¹, Toru Miyoshi², Masayuki Doi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital Takamatsu City Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama University Okayama City Japan.

Abstract

A lotus root-like appearance of the coronary artery diagnosed by optical coherence tomography (OCT) is characterized by old coronary thrombi that form small lumen channels. Herein, serial OCT images of a left anterior descending artery with a lotus root-like appearance, treated with drug-coated balloon angioplasty are described.

Keywords: angioplasty; coronary artery; drug‐coated balloon; optical coherence tomography.

Publication types

Case Reports