Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman

We report a case of a 50-year-old ex-smoker, postmenopausal woman presenting with an acute myocardial infarction caused by a spontaneous coronary artery dissection of a long ‘wrap-around’ left anterior descending coronary artery. After the diagnostic coronary angiography, she was treated medically w...

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Autores principales: Saleb, Karim, Gibreal, Mohammed, Sodhi, Gurpreet, Solomon, Allen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu065
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spelling pubmed-43699762015-05-18 Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman Saleb, Karim Gibreal, Mohammed Sodhi, Gurpreet Solomon, Allen Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports We report a case of a 50-year-old ex-smoker, postmenopausal woman presenting with an acute myocardial infarction caused by a spontaneous coronary artery dissection of a long ‘wrap-around’ left anterior descending coronary artery. After the diagnostic coronary angiography, she was treated medically with subsequent improvement. Oxford University Press 2015-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4369976/ /pubmed/25988070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu065 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_fullStr Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman
title_short Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman
title_sort spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369976/
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