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Diastolic coronary artery narrowing due to left ventricular dilatation
D V Cokkinos1, S Christoulas, A Drakotos
1Cardiology Department, Tzanio Hospital, Pireus, Greece.
Acta Cardiologica
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 56 year old man with a large anterior myocardial infarction and diffuse left ventricular hypocontractility and dilatation was found to have narrowing of the distal part of the left anterior descending coronary artery in diastole. This most unusual finding was ascribed to diastolic compression of the vessel by the enlarged left ventricle. Only 3 similar cases have been found in the literature up to now.