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Abstract 4142012: Ectasias of Multiple Coronary Arteries and a Coronary Cameral Fistula Between Right Coronary Artery and Coronary Sinus

Circulation

Cardiac MRI did not show significant ischemic findings.The patient received medical therapy consisting of antiplatelet agents, high dose statin, beta blocker and ACE inhibitor, as well as diuretics. Notably, the LAD had multiple aneurysmal segments and areas of eccentric stenosis upto 90%.Multislice It is often clinically silent.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

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Takotsubo is a sudden event, not one with crescendo angina. 9 This dissociation between the degree of stenosis and the propensity to provoke an acute coronary syndrome helps to explain why myocardial infarction often occurs without being heralded by the demand-induced symptoms of angina that would result from a high-grade stenosis.

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