MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION DUE TO THROMBOSIS O F THE LEFT CORONARY-ARTERY IN A THROMBOCYTHAEMIC PATIENT

Authors
JOSEPH T HILTGEN M GAULIER A SAUDEMONT JP
Citation
T. Joseph et al., MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION DUE TO THROMBOSIS O F THE LEFT CORONARY-ARTERY IN A THROMBOCYTHAEMIC PATIENT, Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie, 45(10), 1996, pp. 581-584
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033928
Volume
45
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Pages
581 - 584
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3928(1996)45:10<581:MDTTOF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Myocardial infarction is not exceptional in patients with essential th rombocythaemia. This infarction is often related to the formation of i n situ coronary thrombosis with no associated atheromatous lesions. Th e authors report the case of a thrombocythaemic patient with anterior infarction due to thrombosis of the left coronary artery. The clinical course is often more severe than in nonthrombocythaemic patients. The pathophysiological mechanisms remain unclear, but appear to be relate d to qualitative rather than quantitative platelet abnormalities.