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5 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) induced by coronary artery embolism
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Case_series
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Highlights the need to suspect embolic MI in patients with AF or rheumatic heart disease lacking widespread atherosclerosis;.
Acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary embolism is often associated with left heart chamber sources such as rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation, presenting angiographically as occlusion without widespread atherosclerosis.
Zhang et al. (2017) studied this question.
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