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Published on: May 28, 2019
Cardiogenic shock caused by severe coronary artery spasm immediately after coronary stenting
Aaron Wong1, Alfred Cheng, Charles Chan
1Department of Cardiology, National Heart Center, 17 Third Hospital Avenue, Singapore. Aaron_WONG@nhc.com.sg
Abstract:
Coronary artery spasm is common during percutaneous coronary intervention and is easily relieved by intracoronary administration of vasodilators. We report the case of a patient who had severe, protracted, generalized spasm of the entire left coronary artery system during coronary artery stenting. The spasm, which was unresponsive to intracoronary vasodilators administered via guiding catheter, resulted in pulmonary edema and cardiogenic shock. Local injection of nitroglycerin via a transit catheter in the coronary artery eventually resolved the spasm and reversed the cardiogenic shock. To our knowledge, this is the 1st report of such a case in the English-language medical literature.
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