Milking-like effect secondary to systolic expansion of a post-infarction left ventricular aneurysm

Moreno, R.úl.; Perez del Todo, J.ús.; Macaya, C.

Journal of Invasive Cardiology 15(10): 608-609

2003


ISSN/ISBN: 1042-3931
PMID: 14519899
Document Number: 554573
Systolic compression of coronary arteries is almost always due to the existence of myocardial bridging. We present a patient with a post-infarction left ventricular aneurysm in whom coronary angiography showed a milking-like effect with systolic compression of the distal left anterior descending coronary artery.

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