Allergic Acute Coronary Syndrome (Kounis Syndrome)
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Allergic acute coronary syndrome (Kounis syndrome).
Anaphylaxis rarely manifests as a vasospastic acute coronary syndrome with or without the presence of underlying coronary artery disease. The variability in the underlying pathogenesis produces a wide clinical spectrum of this syndrome. We present three cases of anaphylactic acute coronary syndrome that display different clinical variants of this phenomenon. The main pathophysiological mechanis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0899-8280,1525-3252
DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2015.11929274