Key result
Alcohol ingestion induced Prinzmetal's variant angina in a 52-year-old man 10-11 hours after exposure, likely due to withdrawal from acute alcohol exposure.
Case Report (n=1)
Withdrawal from acute alcohol exposure may be a causative mechanism for alcohol-induced Prinzmetal's variant angina.
Alcohol withdrawal may precipitate Prinzmetal angina; single case leaves association hypothesis-generating.
Prinzmetal's variant agina occurred in a 52-year-old man 10-11 h after the ingestion of alcohol, when blood levels of alcohol decreased almost to the zero level. Coronary arteriograms revealed significant narrowing in the left circumflex artery and the left anterior descending artery and minimal wall irregularity in the right coronary artery; however, both exercise and pharmacologic stress tests were negative. A withdrawal from an acute exposure to alcohol was discussed as a possible causative mechanism of the alcohol-induced Prinzmetal's variant angina in this case.
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Sato et al. (1981) conducted a case report in Prinzmetal's variant angina (n=1). Alcohol ingestion was evaluated on Prinzmetal's variant angina. Alcohol ingestion induced Prinzmetal's variant angina in a 52-year-old man 10-11 hours after exposure, likely due to withdrawal from acute alcohol exposure.
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