Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy

Premenopausal women with chest pain syndrome may have nonatherosclerotic coronary arteries with abnormal coronary flow. Estrogens have cardioprotective effect improving coronary vasodilatation. This case report discusses the consequences of leuprolide use by decreasing estrogen levels which led to a...

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Autores principales: Perez, Irving E., Menegus, Mark A., Taub, Cynthia C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/390642
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description Premenopausal women with chest pain syndrome may have nonatherosclerotic coronary arteries with abnormal coronary flow. Estrogens have cardioprotective effect improving coronary vasodilatation. This case report discusses the consequences of leuprolide use by decreasing estrogen levels which led to acute myocardial infarction.
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spelling pubmed-44932912015-07-21 Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy Perez, Irving E. Menegus, Mark A. Taub, Cynthia C. Case Rep Med Case Report Premenopausal women with chest pain syndrome may have nonatherosclerotic coronary arteries with abnormal coronary flow. Estrogens have cardioprotective effect improving coronary vasodilatation. This case report discusses the consequences of leuprolide use by decreasing estrogen levels which led to acute myocardial infarction. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4493291/ /pubmed/26199626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/390642 Text en Copyright © 2015 Irving E. Perez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy
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title_fullStr Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy
title_short Myocardial Infarction in a Premenopausal Woman on Leuprolide Therapy
title_sort myocardial infarction in a premenopausal woman on leuprolide therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493291/
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