Cardiac syncope due to transient coronary artery occlusion: the role of percutaneous angioplasty.

Burn, S; Schilling, R; Kaye, G C · Postgrad Med J · 1998

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A case of cardiac syncope is presented, associated with single vessel coronary disease. The mechanism of the syncope would appear to be a ventricular arrhythmia with transmural myocardial ischaemia due to transient occlusion of the diseased coronary artery. The symptoms and electrocardiographic abnormalities were reproduced and subsequently abolished by percutaneous coronary angioplasty.

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