Coronary Artery Tortuosity Found in a Marathon Runner

Coronary artery tortuosity (CAT) is an anatomical anomaly in which the coronary arteries contain kinks or coils. It is usually found incidentally in elderly patients with long-standing uncontrolled hypertension. This case illustrates a 58-year-old female marathon runner who was found to have CAT, or...

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Autores principales: Patel, Humail, Diem, Danielle, Keyes, Patrick, Supariwala, Azhar A, Syed, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10314825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37404405
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39849
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author Patel, Humail
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Syed, Sarah
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description Coronary artery tortuosity (CAT) is an anatomical anomaly in which the coronary arteries contain kinks or coils. It is usually found incidentally in elderly patients with long-standing uncontrolled hypertension. This case illustrates a 58-year-old female marathon runner who was found to have CAT, originally presenting with chest pain, hypotension, presyncope, and a severe cramping sensation in her legs.
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spelling pubmed-103148252023-07-03 Coronary Artery Tortuosity Found in a Marathon Runner Patel, Humail Diem, Danielle Keyes, Patrick Supariwala, Azhar A Syed, Sarah Cureus Cardiology Coronary artery tortuosity (CAT) is an anatomical anomaly in which the coronary arteries contain kinks or coils. It is usually found incidentally in elderly patients with long-standing uncontrolled hypertension. This case illustrates a 58-year-old female marathon runner who was found to have CAT, originally presenting with chest pain, hypotension, presyncope, and a severe cramping sensation in her legs. Cureus 2023-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10314825/ /pubmed/37404405 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39849 Text en Copyright © 2023, Patel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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