[Acute myocardial infarction with fatal outcome in a 22-year-old woman]

Ugeskr Laeger. 2015 Jan 26;177(2A):124-5.
[Article in Danish]

Abstract

It is important to recognize that patients with chest pain and a family history of cardiac diseases along with obvious risk factors might suffer from acute myocardial infarction. Even young females can be affected. We present a history of a 22-year-old woman who was predisposed to cardiac atherosclerosis. Her father and her brother had atherosclerotic changes in coronary arteries. Her BMI was 35 kg/m2 and she was a smoker. Her young age misled the physicians to conclude, with fatal consequence, that her symptoms with chest pain and heavy feeling in both arms were explained by spasms of the cardia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Coronary Artery Disease / complications
  • Coronary Artery Disease / diagnosis
  • Coronary Artery Disease / genetics
  • Coronary Artery Disease / pathology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology
  • Myocardial Infarction / genetics
  • Myocardial Infarction / pathology
  • Risk Factors
  • Young Adult