Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation

Primary aldosteronism as a cause of coronary ectasia has been reported only once in the literature and was associated with an aortic aneurysm. Here, we report a second presentation in our cardiology department - a 59-year-old female patient who was admitted for unstable angina. Coronary angiography...

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Autores principales: Rasras, Hammam, Brem, Falmata Laouan, Ouafi, Noha El, Ismaili, Nabila
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2021
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Images in Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8587354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34805380
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.22
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author Rasras, Hammam
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description Primary aldosteronism as a cause of coronary ectasia has been reported only once in the literature and was associated with an aortic aneurysm. Here, we report a second presentation in our cardiology department - a 59-year-old female patient who was admitted for unstable angina. Coronary angiography revealed an ectasia of two major coronary arteries. An etiological assessment revealed an idiopathic primary aldosteronism.
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spelling pubmed-85873542021-11-18 Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation Rasras, Hammam Brem, Falmata Laouan Ouafi, Noha El Ismaili, Nabila Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Images in Cardiology Primary aldosteronism as a cause of coronary ectasia has been reported only once in the literature and was associated with an aortic aneurysm. Here, we report a second presentation in our cardiology department - a 59-year-old female patient who was admitted for unstable angina. Coronary angiography revealed an ectasia of two major coronary arteries. An etiological assessment revealed an idiopathic primary aldosteronism. Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2021-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8587354/ /pubmed/34805380 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.22 Text en Copyright ©2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
title Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
title_full Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
title_fullStr Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
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title_short Coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
title_sort coronary ectasia due to primary aldosteronism in an exceptional presentation
topic Images in Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8587354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34805380
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.22
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