Percutaneous coronary angioplasty in a cardiac transplant recipient.
Two years after an orthotopic cardiac transplant a 28 year old man was found to have clinically significant stenosis of the right coronary artery at routine coronary angiography. This lesion was accompanied by a perfusion defect on exercise thallium scintigraphy. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the lesion improved the angiographic appearance of the stenosis and reduced the exercise thallium perfusion defect.
D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*