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[Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a young woman with acute myocardial infarction. Clinical case]
A Bellet1, A Martínez, E Valenzuela
1Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Hospital Clínico, P Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
Abstract:
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in the absence of atherosclerosis, is a rare cause of acute myocardial infarction. We report a 37 years old woman with an inferior wall acute myocardial infarction secondary to an spontaneous dissection of the right coronary artery. The patient's evolution was uneventful and a new angiography performed six months later showed that the dissection persisted. The possible etiologies and treatment are discussed.