Published in:
01-02-2019 | Images that Teach
Reversed redistribution in SPECT images from spontaneous coronary vasospasm
Authors:
Fahad Aftab, MD, Steven Daniels, MD
Published in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Issue 1/2019
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Excerpt
A 53-year-old male presented after a syncopal episode after taking sublingual nitroglycerin for chest pain. His past history included a percutaneous coronary intervention of the left circumflex artery using a drug-eluting stent 3 weeks prior, as well as remote stenting of the proximal right coronary artery (RCA) and mid left anterior descending artery (LAD) using drug-eluting stents. During the hospitalization, he experienced recurrent chest pain and an electrocardiogram displayed ST elevations in the anterior leads,
that resolved with nitroglycerin as displayed below.
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