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. 1992 Sep;68(803):758–761. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.68.803.758

Acute myocardial infarction related to smoke inhalation and myocardial bridging.

M J McCabe 1, C F Weston 1, A G Fraser 1
PMCID: PMC2399460  PMID: 1480542

Abstract

A previously healthy 26 year old woman who was exposed to smoke during a house fire developed acute anterior myocardial infarction complicated by ventricular fibrillation. Subsequent left ventriculography confirmed anterior infarction, but coronary arteriography was normal apart from myocardial bridging over a segment of the left anterior descending artery. The development of acute myocardial infarction in this patient suggests that, in the presence of bridging, carbon monoxide inhalation may cause regional infarction.

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