Is nitroglycerin detrimental in patients with coronary artery ectasia?: A case report

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-144

  Sanyal, Saugato ^a,b   Caccavo, Nicholas ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery ectasia; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial ischemia; Nitroglycerin; Streptokinase

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; METOPROLOL; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NITROGLYCERIN; SAFETY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0031744473     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Packard M, Wechsler HF Aneurysm of the coronary arteries. Arch Intern Med 1929;43:1-14.
2. Cross SJ, Lee HS, Kenmure AC, Jennings KP. Coronary artery ectasia: is it associated with myocardial ischaemia and infarction? Scott Med J 1993;38:28-9.
3. Swaye PS, Fisher LD, Litwin P, Vignola PA, Judkins MP, Kemp HG, et al. Aneurysmal coronary artery disease Circulation 1983;67:134-8.
4. Kruger D, Sticrle U, Potratz J, Diederich KW, Sheikhzadeh A Detection of stress-induced myocardial ischemia in isolated coronary ectasia and aneurysm [in German]. Z Kardiol 1996;85:407-17
5. Sorrell VL, Davis MJ, Bove AA. Origins of coronary artery ectasia. Lancet 1996;347:136-7.
6. Quyyumi AA, Dakak N, Andrews NP, Husain S, Arora S, Gilligan DM, et al. Nitric oxide activity in the human coronary circulation. Impact of risk factors for coronary atherosclerosis. J Clin Invest 1995;95:1747-55.
7. Markis JE, Joffe CD, Cohn PF, Feen DJ, Herman MV, Gorlin R. Clinical significance of coronary arterial eccasia. Am J Cardiol 1976;37:217-22.
8. Rath S, Har-Zahav Y, Battler A, Agranat O, Rotstein Z, Rabinowitz B, et al. Fate of nonobstructive aneurysmatic coronary artery disease: angiographic and clinical follow-up report. Am Heart J 1985;109:785-91.
9. Marchetti GV, Merlo L, Antognetti RM. The effects of nitroglycerin on the coronary blood flow and oxygen consumption of the myocardium in anesthetized dogs. Am J Cardiol 1964;13:51-7.
10. Brachfeld N, Bozer J, Gorlin R. Action of nitroglycerin on the coronary circulation in normal and in mild cardiac subjects. Circulation 1959;19:697-704.
11. Vatner SF. Regulation of coronary resistance vessels and large coronary arteries. Am J Cardiol 1985;56:16E-22E
12. Azancot I, Masquet C, Didi D, Samla R, Bouvrain Y. Effects of the parenteral administration of trinitroglycerin on myocardial function, coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption in the coronary artery disease patient [in French). Nouv Presse Med 1979;8:250-6.
13. Lockwood TD. Opposing actions of cholinergic agonist and trinitroglycerin on net vascular resistance in perfused rat heart. Int J Cardiol 1996;57:9-19.
14. Chen LY, Mehta P, Mehta JL. Platelet inhibitory effect of nitroglycerin in platelet-rich plasma: relevance of glutathione-s-transferases in plasma. J Investig Med 1996;44:561-5.
15. Rab ST, Smith DW, Alimurung BN, Rab R, King SB III. Thrombolytic therapy in coronary ectasia and acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 1990;119:955-7.
16. Theron HD, Kleynhans PH, Marx JD, Marks DS. Successful coronary reperfusion with intracoronary streptokinase in a patient with coronary ectasia. S Afr Med J 1987;72:502-3.
17. Wald RW, Sternberg L, Feiglin DH, Morch JE. Effect of intracoronary glyceryl trinitrate on perfusion distribution in the collateralised human myocardium. Br Heart J 1980;44:175-8.
18. Farto e Abreu P, Mesquita A, Silva JA, Seabra-Gomes R. Coronary artery ectasia: clinical and angiographic characteristics and prognosis [in Portuguese] Rev Port Cardiol 1993; 12:305-10.