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SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY SPASM IN LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING ARTERY - A CASE REPORT

SARAVANAN M MURUGESAN

Abstract


Coronary artery spasm has been well
documented during angiography. Coronary
artery spasm should now be considered
a well proven clinical entity which
may or may not be associated with clinical
symptoms and coronary atherosclerosis
and may be either spontaneous or
iatrogenically induced. The most important
clinical entity associated with coronary
spasm is that of Prinzmetal's angina.
Patients who have variant angina
are more likely to develop coronary
spasm during angiography. Coronary artery
spasm is also likely to occur during
coronary angiography as a result of
catheter irritation.coronary artery spasm
is commonly reported with right coronary
artery. We report a case of spontaneous
occurrence of coronary artery spasm in
left anterior descending artery.


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