A Case of Aborted Sudden Cardiac Death Due to Coronary Artery Spasm

Primero Ng, MBBS (Hons); Jon Spiro, MBBS, BSc (Hons), MD; Imran Shiekh, MBBS; Carl Schultz, MBChB, DPhil; Richard Alcock, MBBS (Hons), MPhil

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2023)

A Case of Aborted Sudden Cardiac Death Due to Coronary Artery Spasm

Primero Ng, MBBS (Hons),
Jon Spiro, MBBS, BSc (Hons), MD,
Imran Shiekh, MBBS,
Carl Schultz, MBChB, DPhil,
Richard Alcock, MBBS (Hons), MPhil

Affiliations

Primero Ng, MBBS (Hons): Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia; Address for correspondence: Dr Primero Ng, Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Level 4, A Block, Wellington Street, Perth 6000, Western Australia.
Jon Spiro, MBBS, BSc (Hons), MD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia; Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Imran Shiekh, MBBS: Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
Carl Schultz, MBChB, DPhil: Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia; Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Richard Alcock, MBBS (Hons), MPhil: Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 28
p. 102127

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Coronary artery spasm remains an important yet rarely recognized cause of myocardial ischemia, which may manifest as vasospastic angina, ventricular arrhythmia, or sudden cardiac death. Here we present a case of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction complicated by cardiac arrest secondary to coronary artery spasm, diagnosed with invasive coronary function testing.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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