Coronary manifestations of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) are rarely identified pre-mortem. We report a 51-year-old female with PAN causing a coronary dissection and new lesions developing over the next 5 days. PAN should be added to the list of differential diagnoses for spontaneous coronary dissection
Aortic valve fibroelastoma presenting with myocardial infarction
β Scribed by Hossein Eftekhari; Ashequl Islam; Mara Slawsky
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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