Abstract
The problem of myocardial infarction (MI) with angiographically and autoptically normal coronary arteries has received much interest in recent literature [1–5, 10]. While subendocardial disseminated MI may occur with normal coronary arteries in situations of very low oxygen supply (e.g., severe anemia, CO intoxication, or severe hypotension) or with markedly increased oxygen demand (e.g., hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or aortic stenosis), transmural MI with subsequently normal coronary arteries are most frequently attributed to spontaneous lysis of thrombotic occlusions [1, 5] and to coronary vasospasm [9, 13, 14].
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Engel, H.J., Engel, E., Lichtlen, P.R. (1981). Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Women: Evidence for Spontaneous Lysis of a Coronary Thrombus. In: Roskamm, H. (eds) Myocardial Infarction at Young Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68294-0_17
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