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Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis, a rare condition causing spontaneous coronary artery dissection and thrombosis, resulted in the sudden death of two young, otherwise healthy individuals.
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Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis is a rare cause of spontaneous coronary artery dissection and sudden death in young, healthy individuals.
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May prompt consideration of eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis in young sudden deaths; leaves open questions on incidence and mechanisms.
Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis is a rare condition of unexplained etiology involving selectively the left anterior descending coronary artery. This is a peculiar subset of the general pathoanatomic substrate of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Dissection of the arterial wall ensues, complicated by acute coronary thrombosis and results in sudden death without any identifiable clinical features for a premortem diagnosis. Two recently investigated unrelated sudden deaths of young, otherwise completely healthy individuals, a white male and a white female, in the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office prompted this report and a scrutiny of the related literature.
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Stoukas et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis (n=2). Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis was evaluated on Sudden death. Eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis, a rare condition causing spontaneous coronary artery dissection and thrombosis, resulted in the sudden death of two young, otherwise healthy individuals.
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