Successful percutaneous intervention to acute myocardial infarction presenting with typical chest pain in transplanted heart.
Allograft coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main limiting factor of the long-term survival in cardiac transplant recipients. It is present in approximately 50% of patients at 5 years post-transplant. Allograft CAD might result in congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Acute coronary syndrome is a rare presentation of allograft CAD, because symptoms are usually atypical or absent as a result of cardiac denervation. However, it should be reminded that reinnervation of the transplanted heart might occur, and angina pectoris could be felt as a sign of an acute coronary syndrome. We present a 27-year-old female cardiac transplant patient with an acute myocardial infarction, who was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
Bildirici
Ulas
U
Kocaeli University Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology Research and Application Unit, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Celikyurt
Umut
U
Ural
Ertan
E
Sahin
Tayfun
T
Vural
Ahmet
A
Koz
Cem
C
Ural
Dilek
D
D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D000328:Adult; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*