Severe coronary artery disease in a 21-year-old girl with pseudoxanthoma elasticum and anomalous origin of the right coronary artery.
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.
Kocaman
Sinan Altan
SA
Department of Cardiology, Gazi University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Tavil
Yusuf
Y
Yalçin
Mehmet Ridvan
MR
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