This case report highlights a potential association between celiac disease and spontaneous multi-vessel coronary artery dissection presenting as acute myocardial infarction.
Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Alerts to possible celiac-SCAd link in AMI; hypothesis-generating and requires confirmation in larger cohorts.
Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy involving the small intestines. Genetic and environmental risk factors as well as autoimmunity have been linked to its etiology. Studies have shown that coronary artery disease, autoimmune myocarditis, arrhythmias and premature atherosclerosis are more prevalent in individuals with CD compared to individuals without the disease. In this case report a young male patient with CD presented with acute myocardial infarction with spontaneous coronary artery dissections of two vessels. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of spontaneous multi-vessel coronary artery dissection in a patient with CD.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Bayar et al. (2015) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: