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Tetsuo Yamanaka1, Tatsuhiko Ishihara2, Koutarou Miyata3
1Cardiology, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, JPN.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 59-year-old man who developed acute myocardial infarction which is supposed to be associated with capecitabine administration. At the age of 57 years, the patient underwent a laparoscopic colectomy for sigmoid colon cancer and subsequently received adjuvant chemotherapy with capecitabine. About one year later, he developed an acute myocardial infarction and was treated with percutaneous coronary intervention. He did not demonstrate any coronary risk factors except dyslipidemia, which itself was unlikely to be involved in prominent atherogenesis. Considering the reports so far, we presumed that capecitabine contributed to the progression of atherosclerosis in the present case.
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