Sudden death due to painless spasm in near normal coronary arteries
Crozier, I.; Stewart, D.; Ikram, H.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 16(1): 64-65
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291 PMID: 3518688 Document Number: 273099
Two cases of resuscitated sudden cardiac death are described; one was due to ventricular fibrillation and the other to ventricular asystole. In both cases the underlying etiology was painless coronary spasm and no fixed coronary disease.
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