Left Coronary Artery Spasm Causing Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Without Myocardial Infarction
AUTOR(ES)
Freedman, Robert J.
RESUMO
This report describes a patient with persistent, recurrent left anterior descending coronary artery spasm, which causes marked left ventricular dysfunction in a clinical course that is typical of acute myocardial infarction with hyperacute electrocardiographic changes. However, after emergency coronary artery bypass surgery, the patient had complete reversal of left ventricular dysfunction, with no residual evidence of acute myocardial infarction by electrocardiograph or gated blood pool imaging and no CPK enzyme rise. The patient therefore demonstrates that coronary spasm in some instances clearly precedes the sequence of pathophysiologic events leading to acute myocardial infarction. Our report also demonstrates for the first time in man that massive left ventricular dysfunction may occur in this intermediate coronary syndrome, presenting clinically as impending myocardial infarction.
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