Assessment of transplant arteriopathy by intracoronary two-dimensional ultrasound imaging and coronary flow velocity

Accelerated transplant coronary artery disease and massive silent acute myocardial infarction in a heart transplant patient--a case report and brief review of literature

This case report describes an aggressive form of accelerated atherosclerosis predicted early after transplant by dobutamine stress echocardiography in a patient who died of massive myocardial infarction 32 months after transplantation. The main objective finding of this event was markedly increased cardiac filling pressures during an elective cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography. The literature is briefly reviewed.