Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in an Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipient

Josephine Warren; Caitlin Cheshire; Sarah Gutman; James Hare; Andrew Taylor; Hitesh Patel; Peter Bergin; Adam Zimmet; Silvana Marasco; David Kaye; Angeline Leet

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.05.018

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in an Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipient

JACC Case Rep. 2022 Aug 3;4(15):977-981. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.05.018.

Authors

Josephine Warren¹, Caitlin Cheshire¹, Sarah Gutman^{1

2}, James Hare¹, Andrew Taylor¹, Hitesh Patel¹, Peter Bergin¹, Adam Zimmet³, Silvana Marasco^{2

3}, David Kaye^{1

2}, Angeline Leet¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
² Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

We present the case of acute myocardial infarction secondary to spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient 2 weeks post orthotopic heart transplantation. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: FMD, fibromuscular dysplasia; ICH, intracranial hemorrhage; LGE, late gadolinium enhancement; LV, left ventricular; SCAD, spontaneous coronary artery dissection; TTE, transthoracic echocardiogram; acute coronary syndrome; cardiac transplant; dissection; myocardial infarction; systolic heart failure.

Publication types

Case Reports