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Spontaneous dissection of both carotid and left anterior descending coronary arteries occurred sequentially without collagen abnormalities, suggesting dysplasia of common wall precursors.
Describes a rare case of sequential spontaneous carotid and coronary artery dissections, hypothesizing an underlying dysplasia of common precursors.
Alerts clinicians to rare sequential carotid-coronary dissections; leaves open shared wall-precursor dysplasia for prospective study.
The authors report a case of spontaneous dissection of both carotid arteries, followed by spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery after a few days. No major abnormalities of collagen production were found. This case may be underlain by a dysplasia of common precursors of the carotid and coronary walls.
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Censori et al. (2004) studied this question. Spontaneous dissection of both carotid and left anterior descending coronary arteries occurred sequentially without collagen abnormalities, suggesting dysplasia of common wall precursors.
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