Idiopathic coronary artery dissection: a rare in vivo diagnosis.
A 42-year-old white female, who had an acute myocardial infarction, developed postinfarction angina and underwent coronary angiography seven weeks after the event. Coronary angiogram demonstrated a primary dissection of the left anterior descending artery. To our knowledge this is the sixth such report of a patient with primary dissection of a coronary artery demonstrated by angiography and the fourth such patient reported to achieve and maintain asymptomatic status without operative intervention.
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D000792:Angiography; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D013300:Streptokinase / Q000627:therapeutic use
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