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Chest, Vol 82, 678-685, Copyright © 1982 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Patients with myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteriogram

V Legrand, M Deliege, L Henrard, J Boland and H Kulbertus

Eighteen patients who survived an acute myocardial infarction were found to have a normal coronary arteriogram. Seven patients were younger than 35 years and six were female. The myocardial infarction was nontransmural in 11 cases. The mean follow-up was 21.6 months. Eleven patients developed residual chest pain at rest early after myocardial infarction. One, treated by beta-blockers, suffered a recurrent myocardial infarction. Eight became asymptomatic, and two improved under antispastic therapy. Another patient developed a severe form of variant angina three months after myocardial infarction; she died following plexectomy. Finally, two patients experienced rare episodes of angina at rest. The stress ECG was negative in all cases. Provocative test for spasm was positive in three out of nine patients. Diffuse narrowing associated with chest pain was demostrated in two patients at angiography. Thus, myocardial infarction and subsequent normal coronary angiogram are mainly found in young female patients, and infarction is often nontransmural. Clinical evidence of vasospastic phenomena and increased vasomotor tone are found in most patients. Whenever residual chest pain is controlled by antispastic therapy, the follow-up course seems benign.


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