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Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia
Coronary artery ectasia is a relatively rare entity, especially when it involves the left main coronary artery. Furthermore, it is even more uncommon for such a disease process to involve multiple coronary arteries. Here we describe a case of a 78-year-old female who did not possess any of the commo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34336530 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16584 |
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description | Coronary artery ectasia is a relatively rare entity, especially when it involves the left main coronary artery. Furthermore, it is even more uncommon for such a disease process to involve multiple coronary arteries. Here we describe a case of a 78-year-old female who did not possess any of the common risk factors or vasculitic etiologies associated with coronary artery ectasia, who was found to have multi-vessel ectatic segments, including that of the left main coronary artery. This case illuminates the difficult decision making regarding stenting of the coronary arteries with ectatic segments and the decision to anticoagulate. |
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spelling | pubmed-83127672021-07-29 Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia Madkour, Muhammad Hu, Patrick Cureus Cardiology Coronary artery ectasia is a relatively rare entity, especially when it involves the left main coronary artery. Furthermore, it is even more uncommon for such a disease process to involve multiple coronary arteries. Here we describe a case of a 78-year-old female who did not possess any of the common risk factors or vasculitic etiologies associated with coronary artery ectasia, who was found to have multi-vessel ectatic segments, including that of the left main coronary artery. This case illuminates the difficult decision making regarding stenting of the coronary arteries with ectatic segments and the decision to anticoagulate. Cureus 2021-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8312767/ /pubmed/34336530 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16584 Text en Copyright © 2021, Madkour 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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Madkour, Muhammad Hu, Patrick Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title | Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title_full | Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title_fullStr | Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title_full_unstemmed | Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title_short | Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia |
title_sort | multi-vessel coronary artery ectasia |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34336530 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16584 |
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