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Unexpected coronary vasospasm of a contralateral artery during balloon angioplasty

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It is unusual for coronary vasospasm to develop following angioplasty of a coronary vascular lesion that is located elsewhere. We experienced a rare case of shock with vasospasm of the right coronary artery in a patient following balloon angioplasty performed for stent restenosis of the left anterior descending artery.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Surugadai Nihon University Hospital, 1-8-13 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8309, Japan

    Shigemasa Tani, Ikuyoshi Watanabe, Takahiro Kida, Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Iida, Michiaki Matsumoto, Kana Nomoto, Tetsu Kawamata, Satoru Kikuchi & Toshio Kushiro

  2. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Ken Nagao

  3. Department of Second Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuo Kanmatsuse

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Tani, S., Watanabe, I., Kida, T. et al. Unexpected coronary vasospasm of a contralateral artery during balloon angioplasty. Heart Vessels 20, 82–84 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-004-0774-8

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