The variants of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery are important in inter pretation of coronary angiograms and in interventional procedures. The authors present a patient who had percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stent implanta tion to a presumed proximal LAD without the realization that dual LAD was present because of the total occlusion of the long LAD.
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