Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare but increasingly recognized cause of acute syndrome. Here, we describe SCAD in 25-year-old female on long-term cabergoline therapy with no other cardiac risk factors. Cabergoline-induced should be considered patients presenting an syndrome who are treated this medication.

Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading cause of mortality in pregnancy. They are classified as direct (acute onset disease) or indirect (worsening of pre-existing cardiac disease). This overview is focused on acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in pregnancy and the post-partum period. ACS in this setting is a rare condition, but in the last two decades its incidence has grown. This phenomenon ...

Kounis syndrome is an acute coronary syndrome concurrently occurs with allergic or hypersensitivity reactions. In patient with this syndrome, inflammatory mediators released due to an allergic reaction implicate to induce coronary artery spasm and atheromatous plaque rupture. We describe a patient with coronary artery disease who developed acute perioperative myocardial infarction leading to ca...

BACKGROUND An impaired coronary flow reserve in syndrome X has been demonstrated by many studies. Recently, however, a normal coronary flow reserve in response to papaverine was reported, but the number of patients in these studies was small. The aim of this study was to investigate whether coronary flow reserve in response to intracoronary papaverine is really impaired in syndrome X. METHODS...

triggering of acute myocardial infarction   m. salehian [1]     abstract     coronary heart disease (chd) is the leading cause of death in the united states each year about 450.000 people die from chd, and 1.000.000 experience an initial or recurrent coronary event. plaque rupture and it's its subsequent thrombosis at the site of the plaque rupture is the most common underlying pathophysio...

conclusions patient with cad and ms had higher risk than those with only cad because of lipid and glucose metabolism abnormalities. combination measurements of serum lox-1 and adiponectin levels may be helpful to evaluate the severity of cad together with ms. results serum lox-1 level was highest in cad + ms group; the difference between control and disease groups was statistically significant ...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. we report coronary artery dissection in a 36-year-old woman with retrosternal chest pain 2 weeks after abortion. electrocardiography showed st elevation in leads v2-v4 and st depression in the inferior leads. lab data were normal. cardiac catheterization showed a suspicious thrombotic les...

AIM To assess the association between partners' smoking status and acute coronary syndrome in never smokers in Albania. METHODS This population-based case-control study was conducted in Tirana in the period 2003-2006. It involved 467 consecutive patients with non-fatal acute coronary syndrome and 737 controls. Only married never-smokers (169 patients with acute coronary syndrome and 323 contr...

Objective: Chest pain is one of the potential symptoms acute coronary syndrome and second most common emergency worldwide. Acute tends to be seen in patients aged

Angina in the presence of intact coronary arteries remains a relatively frequent clinical issue. It is now well understood that an impairedcapacity to modulate coronary vascular resistances upon exercise (i.e. an impaired coronary flow reserve) may lead to ischemia and angina.We describe a case of coronary slow flow, i.e. a condition in which resting (micro) vascular resistances are ina...