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Polyarteritis nodosa presenting as acute myocardial infarction with coronary dissection
K H Chu1, F J Menapace, J C Blankenship
1Department of Cardiology, Geisinger Medical Center, Penn State Geisinger Health System, Danville 17822, USA.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|July 24, 1998
Abstract:
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 dissections.