Abstract
A 66-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with acute inferior myocardial infarction. She had a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and surgical replacement of the descending aortic aneurysm with a prosthetic graft at 59 years of age. Emergent coronary angiography showed 90% stenosis in the middle right coronary artery. The lesion was successfully dilated with the deployment of a bare metal stent. Physical examination revealed an absence of pulsation of the left popliteal artery and a slight swelling above the left popliteal fossa without pulsation and tenderness. The ankle-brachial pressure indexes of her right and left extremities were 1.08 and 0.58, respectively. Regardless of our careful history taking, she had no …
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