Spontaneous Left Main and Right Coronary Artery Spasm in a Patient With Vasospastic Angina. 2017

Analkumar Parikh, and Thomas Paul Vacek
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA.

Coronary spasm is a well-documented, though rare, condition that can mimic myocardial infarction and is usually found in only a single vessel during an event. We describe the case of a 43-year-old male with past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, tobacco abuse, and with no known coronary disease. The patient developed chest pain 3 days postadmission for primary diagnosis of psychiatric disorder. The patient had a positive stress study with moderate reversible ischemia in the anterolateral region. A subsequent coronary angiography was performed that revealed significant left main coronary obstruction with TIMI I (thrombolysis in myocardial infarction) flow. This pattern was also present in the proximal right coronary artery. Both stenoses were relieved with intracoronary nitroglycerin, revealing no significant obstructive disease and TIMI III flow. The patient was started on dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker and counseled against smoking without recurrence of angina.

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