[Painless anterior acute myocardial infarction in a transplanted heart]

Abstract

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy is the major determinant of long-term survival in patients after heart transplantation. Clinical presentations are congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Acute coronary syndrome is a rare presentation of cardiac allograft vasculopathy due to myocardial denervation. We present the case of a 31-year-old patient, who had undergone heart transplantation 6 months earlier and who developed a painless anterior myocardial infarction revealed by syncope. He was successfully treated by percutaneous coronary intervention with drug eluting stent implantation.

Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction; Angioplastie; Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Coronarographie; Coronaropathie du greffon; Coronary angiogram; Heart transplantation; Infarctus du myocarde; PCI; Transplantation cardiaque.