Isolated hypoplastic circumflex coronary artery: a rare cause of haemorrhagic myocardial infarction in a young athlete
Abstract: Hypoplastic coronary artery disease is a rare condition that may lead to myocardial infarction and sudden death. Here we describe for the first time an isolated hypoplasia of the left circumflex artery (LCX). An otherwise healthy and athletically active 16-year-old boy was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He died 12 hours after the initial event. Autopsy revealed an isolated hypoplastic LCX and acute haemorrhagic infarction in the posterolateral myocardium. The existence of isolated hypoplasia of the LCX challenges our understanding of coronary artery development
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Diagnostic Pathology. 8 (2013), 91, DOI 10.1186/1746-1596-8-91, ISSN: 1746-1596
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Veröffentlichung
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Freiburg
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2017
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10.1186/1746-1596-8-91
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-124676
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Riede, Florian N.
- Bulla, Stefan
- Grundmann, Sebastian
- Werner, Martin
- Riede, Ursus-Nikolaus
- Otto, Claudia
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg. Department Innere Medizin
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg. Department für Pathologie
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg. Institut für Klinische Pathologie
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Medizinische Fakultät
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- 2017