Case Report, J Womens Health Issues Care Vol: 3 Issue: 3
Extensive Coronary Disease in a 24 year Old Woman without Traditional Risk Factors Presenting as Cardiac Arrest
| Vikram Agarwal1, Neel Chokshi2, Jincy Thankachen1, Eyal Herzog1and Jacqueline Tamis-Holland1 | |
| 1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Mount Sinai Health Systems, New York, New York, USA | |
| 2Department of Medicine, Penn Heart and Vascular Center, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Corresponding author : Vikram Agarwal, MD MPH, St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Mount Sinai Health Systems, Division of Cardiology, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025, USA E-mail: vagarwal@post.harvard.edu |
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| Received: January 21, 2014 Accepted: May 23, 2014 Published: May 26, 2014 | |
| Citation: Agarwal V, Chokshi N, Fovino LN, Herzog E, Holland JT (2014) Extensive Coronary Disease in a 24 year Old Woman without Traditional Risk Factors Presenting as Cardiac Arrest. J Womens Health, Issues Care 3:3. doi:10.4172/2325-9795.1000144 |
Abstract
Extensive Coronary Disease in a 24 year Old Woman without Traditional Risk Factors Presenting as Cardiac Arrest
We report a case of a 24-year-old woman without traditional coronary artery disease risk factors, presenting with cardiac arrest due to extensive coronary atherosclerosis. The patient had been admitted to an outside hospital several months earlier with chest pain, and elevated cardiac enzymes, and was diagnosed with “pericarditis”.
