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Active inflammatory bowel disease and coronary artery dissection.

Srinivas M, Basumani P, Muthusamy R, Wheeldon N

Department of Gastroenterology, Rotherham District General Hospital, Moorgate Road, Rotherham S60 2UD, UK. drsrinivasm@hotmail.com

The case of a young woman with flare-up of Crohn's disease, who had an acute myocardial infarction due to the spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery, is reported. The literature on this rare condition is reviewed and a mechanism postulated for spontaneous coronary artery dissection in inflammatory bowel disease.

Published 10 January 2005 in Postgrad Med J, 81(951): 68-70.
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