A Case Report of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

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2018

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Trakya Üniversitesi

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Aims: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a random rupture of the coronary artery wall, which may leadto ischemia of the heart tissue. 30% of the cases are male patients. The aim of this article is to report a patient withspontaneous coronary artery dissection, raise awareness and extend the literature.Case Report: A 43-year-old male patient was presented to Trakya University Hospital with a complaint of persistentchest pain. The patient underwent coronary angiography, revealing spontaneous coronary artery dissection inthe left anterior descending artery and circumflex artery.Conclusion: In this case report, we demonstrated the diagnosis of spontaneous coronary artery dissection withcoronary angiography. Our patient had the most common dissection, left anterior descending artery, right coronaryartery and left main coronary artery. Only medical therapy could be started for the patient due to his voluntary discharge.

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Coronary vessels, coronary artery disease, coronary angiography, chest pain

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Turkish Medical Student Journal

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5

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