Open AccessCoronary arteritis in nonspecific aortoarteritis
Author(s) -
Bahl V. K.,
Dev V.,
Narula J.,
Mukhopadhyaya S.,
Bhatia M. L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960101116
Subject(s) - medicine , arteritis , cardiology , myocardial infarction , coronary angiography , circumflex , coronary artery disease , right coronary artery , angiography , artery
Nonostial distal coronary artery involvement in nonspecific aortoarteritis is rare. We report a 35‐year‐old patient with features of nonspecific aortoarteritis who had an inferolateral myocardial infarction and on coronary angiography was shown to have severe disease of the left circumflex artery in its middle third.