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Mixed aneurysmal and obstructive coronary artery disease causing acute myocardial infarction in a young woman with Takayasu's arteritis
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Mixed aneurysmal and obstructive coronary artery disease causing acute myocardial infarction in a young woman with Takayasu's arteritis

N Al-Hulaimi, A Al-Saileek, T Ahmed, M Al-Zaibag, R G Pai and H El-Widaa
Canadian journal of cardiology, Vol.17(5), pp.602-605
01/05/2001
PMID: 11381284

Abstract

Takayasu's disease is a chronic inflammatory pathology of the aorta and its main branches. The present report describes a rare presentation of the disease in a young woman who presented with anterior myocardial infarction, and was subsequently found to have mixed aneurysmal and obstructive coronary artery disease involving the left anterior descending artery and its diagonal branches. Issues surrounding the management of coronary artery disease in this patient are discussed.

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