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St Elevation Myocardial Infarction In A Young Adult: Expect The Unexpected, Shashank Jain, Md, Priya Rajagopalan, Md, Mitul Kanzaria, Md, Meir Mazuz, Md
St Elevation Myocardial Infarction In A Young Adult: Expect The Unexpected, Shashank Jain, Md, Priya Rajagopalan, Md, Mitul Kanzaria, Md, Meir Mazuz, Md
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Background
- Acute myocardial infarction (MI) in young adults can present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
- Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs in infancy and childhood
- Coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) are the most serious complication of untreated KD seen in upto 25% of patients
- Thrombosis of these CAA or coronary stenosis can present as MI in less than 2% of cases which mainly occur in the 1st year of disease onset
- Late presentations in adult life is extremely rare