Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins

We present the case of a patient whose monozygotic twin brother suffered a fatal myocardial infarction at the age of 40. The patient presented with similar symptoms as his brother. Given the family history, ischemic evaluation was undertaken and revealed similar coronary anatomy and severe coronary...

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Autores principales: Smith, Megan C, Baker, John R, Gleaves, Evan, Singh, Aniruddha, Kazimuddin, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367763
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16139
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author Smith, Megan C
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description We present the case of a patient whose monozygotic twin brother suffered a fatal myocardial infarction at the age of 40. The patient presented with similar symptoms as his brother. Given the family history, ischemic evaluation was undertaken and revealed similar coronary anatomy and severe coronary artery disease (CAD). We review the current literature regarding genetic and environmental factors regarding coronary anatomy, locations of atherosclerotic lesions, and screening in twins.
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spelling pubmed-83304992021-08-06 Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins Smith, Megan C Baker, John R Gleaves, Evan Singh, Aniruddha Kazimuddin, Mohammed Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery We present the case of a patient whose monozygotic twin brother suffered a fatal myocardial infarction at the age of 40. The patient presented with similar symptoms as his brother. Given the family history, ischemic evaluation was undertaken and revealed similar coronary anatomy and severe coronary artery disease (CAD). We review the current literature regarding genetic and environmental factors regarding coronary anatomy, locations of atherosclerotic lesions, and screening in twins. Cureus 2021-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8330499/ /pubmed/34367763 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16139 Text en Copyright © 2021, Smith 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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Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins
title Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins
title_full Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins
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title_short Twinning: Coronary Artery Disease in Monozygotic Twins
title_sort twinning: coronary artery disease in monozygotic twins
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
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