title: Microvascular angina, adverse outcome: a case report.
abstract: We encountered a patient with microvascular angina (MVA) who was died suddenly, and observed ST-segment elevation during attack without epicardial coronary arterial vasoconstriction, suggesting the occurrence of microvascular spasm. Doppler guide wire (DGW) and N-13 ammonia positron emission tomography (PET) demonstrate severe impairment of the coronary microcirculation extending throughout the whole of the left ventricle. Conventional medical treatment was not effective in this case. We speculate that the prognosis of microvascular angina with severe coronary microcirculatory disturbance and accompanied by microvascular spasm might not always be good. Therefore, methods for treating such cases need to be established.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical University, Matsuoka-cho, 23-3 Shimoaizuki, Fukui 910-1193, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Jong-Dae
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hiromasa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation; D017566:Microvascular Angina / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011379:Prognosis