Abstract
A 46-year-old patient showed spontaneous angina with anterior S-T segment depression 30 hours after an inferior acute myocardial infarction. Myocardial ischemia, which was resistant to drug therapy and induced acute left ventricular failure, was promptly reversed by intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP). Coronary angiography demonstrated diffuse, severe atherosclerotic disease. Efficacy of IABP in this case of spontaneous angina might be ascribed to an increase of the coronary cross-sectional area in response to the increased intraluminal pressure ("passive vasomotion").
Translated title of the contribution | A case of postinfarction spontaneous angina: physiopathological study of the therapeutic effectiveness of intra-aortic balloon pumping |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 197-200 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 3 |
State | Published - 1983 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine