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Coronary Angiography Showing a Discrete Critical Stenosis (Black Arrow) of the Midportion of the Left Anterior Descending Artery due to Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.

Coronary Angiography Showing a Discrete Critical Stenosis (Black Arrow) of the Midportion of the Left Anterior Descending Artery due to Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.

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In an era when cardiac transplant patients are surviving more immediate issues of rejection and infection, the prevalence of more chronic issues such as cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is rising. This case describes a man 20 years after cardiac transplant with his first presentation of CAV. Acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed on the basi...

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... angiography demonstrated a right dominant circulation. There was a discrete critical stenosis (type A lesion) of the midportion of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery due to CAV (Figure 1). There was moderate diffuse disease in the midportion of the left circumflex artery and proximal portion of the right coronary artery. ...