A case of variant angina with normal coronary arteriogram who developed acute myocardial infarction and cerebral embolism.
We report a case of a 44-year-old male with variant angina who developed acute anterior myocardial infarction 2 weeks following demonstration of normal left coronary artery. This experience provides inferential evidence that myocardial ischemia resulting from coronary spasm may progress into myocardial infarction.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000150:complications*; D000788:Angina Pectoris, Variant / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000792:Angiography; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D013035:Spasm / Q000150:complications; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications