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Coronary artery stenting in a patient with progeria
Author(s) -
Roggen Mieke,
Dubois Christophe,
Gewillig Marc
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26730
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , progeria , coronary artery disease , dissection (medical) , radiology , artery dissection , angina , fibromuscular dysplasia , stenosis , artery , acute coronary syndrome , surgery , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , biochemistry , chemistry , renal artery , gene , kidney
Progeria syndrome is a very rare disease with early demise in the second decade due to cardiovascular disease. Most events are sudden and fatal, leaving no time for medical or interventional therapies; no such interventional therapy has been reported. We present a 13 years old boy who previously had suffered from dissection of both internal carotid arteries; he now presented with exercise‐induced angina. Both CT‐scan and angiography revealed severe stenotic lesions at the origin of the right coronary artery and left anterior descending artery, typical for dissection. Coronary artery stenting resolved the symptoms. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.