CARDIAC SYNCOPE DUE TO TRANSIENT CORONARY-ARTERY OCCLUSION - THE ROLEOF PERCUTANEOUS ANGIOPLASTY

Authors
BURN S SCHILLING R KAYE GC
Citation
S. Burn et al., CARDIAC SYNCOPE DUE TO TRANSIENT CORONARY-ARTERY OCCLUSION - THE ROLEOF PERCUTANEOUS ANGIOPLASTY, Postgraduate medical journal, 74(872), 1998, pp. 361-362
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
74
Issue
872
Year of publication
1998
Pages
361 - 362
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1998)74:872<361:CSDTTC>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A case of cardiac syncope is presented, associated with single vessel coronary disease. The mechanism of the syncope would appear to be a ve ntricular arrhythmia with transmural myocardial ischaemia due to trans ient occlusion of the diseased coronary artery. The symptoms and elect rocardiographic abnormalities were reproduced and subsequently abolish ed by percutaneous coronary angioplasty.