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Acquired coronary angiogenesis after myocardial infarction
N W Shammas1, A J Moss, J T Sullebarger
1Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642.
Cardiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Acquired coronary artery microvascular fistulas have been reported in only a few patients after myocardial infarction. We describe 1 patient in whom serial coronary angiography demonstrated the development of coronary angiogenesis at the site of an old myocardial infarction. The area of neovascularity was associated with a large apical left ventricular thrombus. This finding suggests that growth-promoting mitogens are present in myocardium and thrombus and that angiogenesis occurs in some patients following myocardial infarction.