Asymptomatic myocardial infarction early after coronary artery bypass grafting may explain the absence of angina in some patients with occluded vein grafts.
Asymptomatic early MI may explain absent angina despite occluded grafts post-CABG; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Five patients with occluded vein grafts were found after operation to be free from angina. These patients had electrocardiographic evidence of asymptomatic myocardial infarction occurring early in the postoperative period.
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