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Syncope: a symptom of coronary artery spasm after cardiac transplantation
F Colizza1, G B Pelletier, M Carrier
1Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
Two cases of coronary spasm in cardiac transplant recipients in which the presenting symptom was syncope without chest pain are reported. Diagnosing coronary spasm in transplant patients appears to be important because, based upon the few cases in the literature, prognosis is very poor. Coronary spasm may be related to accelerated atherosclerosis occurring in the transplanted heart.