title: [Infarction with angiographically normal coronary vessels. (20 cases)].
abstract: Over 8 years, 20 cases of infarction with normal coronary angiography have been reported, representing 0.9% of the patients who underwent a coronary angiography after a myocardial infarction. The main characteristics of these patients are compared with those taken from the literature. The occurrence of this disease mainly depends on the age: especially higher when the patients are younger, ranging between 1 and 4% in major series, but it may reach 25% in case of infarction occurring before the age of 30. Therefore, this entity mainly affects young patients (mean age in the literature: 34.3 years), with a large proportion of women (27%). The main risk factor is smoking, found in 3 out of 4 men an more than half of the women; on the contrary, hypercholesterolemia and arterial hypertension are only seldom found. In women, administration of estro-progestative medications in mentioned in almost every other case. Coronary heredity is mentioned in one out of 3 cases. In 68% of the cases, the infarction is the original manifestation and frequently occurs during stress: 60 p. cent of the cases. The site of the necrosis is insignificant. Mortality is low: 2 p. cent but in 5 p. cent of the cases, the course may be complicated by recurrence or heart failure. According to recent findings on coronary angiography during the acute phase, the pathogenesis could involve an arterial coronary thrombosis, perhaps developing on minimal coronary lesions, caused by a spasm and/or a platelets hyperaggregation; then this coronary thrombosis is revascularized.
authors.affiliation: Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Sud, Amiens.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Rey
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tribouilloy
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marek
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Avinée
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fache
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jarry
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Quiret
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lesbre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bernasconi
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female / Q000009:adverse effects; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female
vernacular_title: Infarctus à coronaires angiographiquement normales. 20 observations.