title: Mixed aneurysmal and obstructive coronary artery disease causing acute myocardial infarction in a young woman with Takayasu's arteritis.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Sciences, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Al-Hulaimi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Saileek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Zaibag
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Pai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: El-Widaa
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications*