Cardiac syncope due to transient coronary artery occlusion: the role of percutaneous angioplasty.
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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Department of Cardiology, Hull Royal Infirmary, North Humberside, UK.
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Kaye
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D000788:Angina Pectoris, Variant / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000150:complications; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*