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Transmural Myocardial InfarctionWith the Prolapsing Mitral-Leaflet Syndrome and Normal Coronary Arteries
T. Imaizumi, MD;
P. A. N. Chandraratna, MD, MRCP;
T. F. Whayne, Jr, MD;
E. Schechter, MD;
S. K. Bhatia, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1978;138(9):1354-1355.
Abstract
Clinical and electrocardiographic evidence of transmural myocardial infarction developed in two patients (a woman, age 38, and a boy, age 17) with prolapsing mitral-leaflet syndrome. Both had normal coronary angiograms and normal plasma lipid levels. Left ventricular angiography showed dyskinetic areas in both patients. Coronary artery embolism or prolonged coronary artery spasm may have been the underlying mechanism of production of myocardial infarction.
(Arch Intern Med 138:1354-1355, 1978)
Author Affiliations
From the Cardiovascular Section, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Drs Imaizumi, Chandraratna, Whayne, and Schechter), and the Cardiovascular Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, (Dr Whayne), Oklahoma City. Dr Bhatia is in private practice in Oklahoma City.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 15, 1977.
Reprint requests to Noninvasive Laboratories, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital, 5901 E Seventh St, N-10, Long Beach, CA 90822 (Dr Chandraratna).
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