European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 21, 2005
European Heart Journal 2006 27(5):518; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi525
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Aortic dissection involving ostium of right coronary artery as the reason of myocardial infarction
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aw Stolarz1
11st Department of Cardiology, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
2Department of Radiology, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
3Departament of Anatomy, Center of Biostructure Research, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
* Corresponding author. E-mail address: mfroik@amwaw.edu.pl
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A 66-year-old woman was admitted after an episode of faint with concomitant severe chest pain lasting
2 h. Typical retrosternal localization of the pain with ST-elevation (Pardee wave) in leads II, III, and aVF, and ST-depression in I, V1V3 allowed to diagnose acute infero-posterior myocardial infarction. ECG also revealed temporal second-degree