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Sub acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction due to the Discontinuation of Warfarin in a Patient with Aortic Valve Prosthesis: What is the Best Treatment

Cengiz Ozturk^*, Turgay Celik, Sevket Balta, Mustafa Demir, Ali Osman Yildirim and Atila Iyisoy

Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey

^*Corresponding Author:

Cengiz Ozturk
Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine
Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey
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E-mail: drcengizozturk@yahoo.com.tr

Received Date: May 23, 2016; Accepted Date: June 30, 2016; Published Date: June 30, 2016

Citation: Ozturk C, Celik T, Balta S, Demir M, Osman A, et al. (2016) Sub acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction due to the Discontinuation of Warfarin in a Patient with Aortic Valve Prosthesis: What is the Best Treatment. Arrhythm Open Access 1:113. doi: 10.4172/atoa.1000113

Copyright: © 2016 Ozturk C, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Acute myocardial infarction (MI) is a common entity in patients due to the atherosclerotic plaque rupture or coronary embolism. We present a patient who had a mechanical aortic valve and was admitted to the hospital for a sub acute anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction due to the discontinuation of warfarin. In case of persistent thrombus formation despite aggressive antithrombotic and anticoagulant therapy, thrombus aspiration, angioplasty and stenting should be preferred rather than conservative approach.