Young men (≤40 years) with AMI frequently present with angiographically normal coronary arteries, are often heavy smokers, and have an excellent prognosis.
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May inform smoking prevention in young adults; leaves open mechanisms and management of AMI with normal coronaries.
These data suggest that young patients with AMI are very frequently heavy smokers, have a high incidence of angiographically normal coronary arteries, and that the short- and long-term prognosis is excellent.
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Fournier et al. (1996) studied this question.
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