title: [Acute myocardial infarction with fatal outcome in a 22-year-old woman].
abstract: It is important to recognize that patients with chest pain and a family history of cardiac diseases along with obvious risk factors might suffer from acute myocardial infarction. Even young females can be affected. We present a history of a 22-year-old woman who was predisposed to cardiac atherosclerosis. Her father and her brother had atherosclerotic changes in coronary arteries. Her BMI was 35 kg/m2 and she was a smoker. Her young age misled the physicians to conclude, with fatal consequence, that her symptoms with chest pain and heavy feeling in both arms were explained by spasms of the cardia.
authors.affiliation: Sygehus Sønderjylland,Kresten Philipsensvej 15, 6200 Aabenraa. christian.backer.mogensen@shs.regionsyddanmark.dk.
authors.forename: Dorte
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Teilmann-Jørgensen
authors.forename: Martin Rune
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.forename: Christian Backer
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Mogensen
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult