Coronary artery dissection

A 29-year-old male experienced an acute anterior myocardial infarction one hour after playing football. How might this have happened.

Coronary dissection and occlusion due to sports injury.

Circulation.2001;103:1174

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"A 32-year-old 15-day-postpartum G3P2 woman presented with sudden cardiac arrest due to an acute anterolateral wall myocardial infarction. "

Spontaneous Postpartum Coronary Dissection

Circulation.1999;99:721

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"The patient was a 31-year-old man with a past history of polycythemia vera, "enlarged heart" (1992), transient ischemic attack (1995), and decompensated heart failure (1997)."

Chronic Coronary Artery Dissection Presenting as Heart Failure

Circulation.1999;100:445

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Edited by Donald L Vine MD