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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection of the left anterior descending artery in a patient with <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 infection
- Source :
- Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- A 48‐year‐old woman with a past medical history of migraines and hyperlipidemia presented due to severe retrosternal chest pain with no other associated signs or symptoms. The patient was hemodynamically stable and was found to have an elevated troponin with electrocardiogram showing no ischemic changes. Computed tomography of the coronary arteries showed a left dominant system with dissection extending from the mid‐to‐distal left anterior descending (LAD) artery. The patient was subsequently discharged on medical therapy but returned 3 days later due to worsening chest pain. Electrocardiogram revealed inferior and anteroseptal ST segment changes with peak troponin of 14.9 ng/ml (reference range
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronary Vessel Anomalies
medicine.medical_treatment
Case Report
Dissection (medical)
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Chest pain
Coronary artery disease
Electrocardiography
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Vascular Diseases
cardiovascular diseases
030212 general & internal medicine
Past medical history
business.industry
COVID-19
Percutaneous coronary intervention
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Coronary arteries
catheterization diagnostic
Ostium
medicine.anatomical_structure
coronary dissection
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Female
coronary angiography
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
coronary artery disease
Artery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1522726X and 15221946
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....98c544d164ac8bc7e415947ce32ed637
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.28960