Abstract
To the Editor: We agree with the observations of Stark et al. (June 20 issue)1 that chest pain can occur with myocardial ischemia in some cardiac-transplant recipients. The case we report emphasizes that in transplant recipients myocardial ischemia may develop in a myocardial region even when recent coronary arteriography has shown only minimal luminal disease. A 54-year-old man who had undergone transplantation five years earlier for idiopathic cardiomyopathy had severe chest pain three weeks after a cardiac catheterization that showed total occlusion of the circumflex vessel with only diffuse minimal luminal irregularities of the left anterior descending and right coronary. . .
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 66-68 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 326 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2 1992 |