title: [Angina after a heart transplant with evidence of late sympathetic reinnervation. Report of one case].
abstract: We report a 56 years-old man presenting with chest pain with exercise, seven years after an orthotopic heart transplant. A coronary angiography showed an atherosclerotic lesion in the common left main coronary artery with more than 90% obstruction. The lesion was successfully treated with a transluminal angioplasty with stenting. A 131-1 metaiodobenylguanidine (MIBG) scan demonstrated sympathetic reinnervation. Sixteen months later, due to progression of allograft vasculopathy, coronary artery bypass was required.
authors: Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares y Cirugía Cardiaca, Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínico Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors: Erick
authors: E
authors: Riedemann S
authors: Pablo
authors: P
authors: Castro G
authors: Juan Carlos
authors: JC
authors: Quintana F
authors: Osvaldo
authors: O
authors: Pérez P
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Mc-Nab M
mesh_terms: D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D006321:Heart / Q000294:innervation*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents