Abstract

We report a case of a 44-year-old male with variant angina who developed acute anterior myocardial infarction 2 weeks following demonstration of normal left coronary artery. This experience provides inferential evidence that myocardial ischemia resulting from coronary spasm may progress into myocardial infarction.

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