title: Severe coronary artery disease in a 21-year-old girl with pseudoxanthoma elasticum and anomalous origin of the right coronary artery.
abstract: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive calcific degeneration and fragmentation of the elastic fibres. We present a patient with PXE who had premature atherosclerosis that had involved severely all major coronary vessels as well as an anomalous origin of right coronary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Gazi University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sinan Altan
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kocaman
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tavil
authors.forename: Mehmet Ridvan
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Yalçin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011561:Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum / Q000150:complications*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed