Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare diagnosis in a postmenopausal woman
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We report a case of a 50-year-old ex-smoker, postmenopausal woman presenting with an acute myocardial infarction caused by a spontaneous coronary artery dissection of a long 'wrap-around' left anterior descending coronary artery. After the diagnostic coronary angiography, she was treated medically with subsequent improvement.
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دوره 2015 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015