Left ventricular ballooning syndrome due to vasospasm of the middle portion of the left anterior descending coronary artery | Zendy

Miquel Fiol | Zendy; Andrés Carrillo | Zendy; A Rodriguez | Zendy; Jaime Herrero | Zendy; Javier GarcíaNiebla | Zendy

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Left ventricular ballooning syndrome due to vasospasm of the middle portion of the left anterior descending coronary artery

Author(s) -

Miquel Fiol,

Andrés Carrillo,

A Rodriguez,

Jaime Herrero,

Javier GarcíaNiebla

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

cardiology journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1897-5593

pISSN - 1898-018X

DOI - 10.5603/cj.2012.0055

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , vasospasm , ballooning , coronary vasospasm , artery , takotsubo syndrome , acute coronary syndrome , etiology , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , heart failure , cardiomyopathy , subarachnoid hemorrhage , physics , plasma , quantum mechanics , tokamak

We report a case that shows vasospasm to be one of the mechanisms responsible for left ventricular ballooning syndrome. Our case suggests that identical ventriculographic findings in patients with tako-tsubo syndrome and those with coronary vasospasm of a long left anterior descending artery coronary artery may be due to a common etiology.

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