title: Suspected vasculitis in an adolescent female with cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, and heart failure requiring heart transplantation.
abstract: A 15-year-old girl presented with dilated cardiomyopathy, positive cardiac markers, and electrocardiogram changes suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. Coronary angiography showed giant dilated coronary arteries. Pathological evidence for cardiomyopathy with acute myocardial infarction was present in the explanted heart. Further investigation suggested evidence for a systemic vasculitis: polyangiitis overlap syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068, USA. snabatian@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Sepideh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nabatian
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Ira
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: DuBrow
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lakier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis