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Coronary artery spasm and ventricular fibrillation after off-pump coronary surgery
1Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. bittn006@tc.umn.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 9, 2002
Abstract:
Native coronary artery or bypass graft spasm is a rare cause of acute myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass grafting. This report presents angiographic documentation of native coronary artery spasm following successful multivessel off-pump coronary revascularization, which caused myocardial ischemia leading to inferior wall myocardial infarction and ventricular fibrillatory arrest.