1. Noninvasive and invasive demonstration of spontaneous regression of coronary artery disease
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W J Kostuk and David M. Roth
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Male ,Coronary angiography ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Arteriosclerosis ,Collateral Circulation ,Coronary Disease ,Anterior Descending Coronary Artery ,Coronary artery disease ,Lesion ,Stress ECG ,Electrocardiography ,Physiology (medical) ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,cardiovascular diseases ,Radionuclide Imaging ,Coronary atherosclerosis ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Coronary Vessels ,Regression ,Exercise Test ,Cardiology ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Stress Electrocardiography - Abstract
Spontaneous regression of a left anterior descending coronary artery lesion was diagnosed by noninvasive testing (stress electrocardiography and thallium-201 myocardial imaging) and confirmed on selective coronary angiography in a 46-year-old man. The patient's clinical improvement, normalization of stress ECG and thallium-201 imaging, together with the loss of collateral filling, confirm that the regression is genuine. This case provides evidence that regression of coronary atherosclerosis can occur in man.
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- 1980
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