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16642350

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
An 89-year-old woman was found dead lying in her bed. Autopsy demonstrated a pronounced thickening of all coronary arteries except for the first 2-4 cm. Death was due to a recent myocardial infarction. Microscopically, the coronary arteries showed a substantial concentric thickening of all three layers with 90% narrowing. There was a dense transmural inflammatory infiltration with lymphocytes, macrophages, and numerous multinucleated giant cells. The CD68 positive giant cells were mostly located at the media-intima border in the vicinity of fragmented fibers of the lamina elastica interna. The aorta and its major branches including the carotid arteries, however, were free of inflammation and thickening. The findings were characteristic for giant cell arteritis, the equivalent of temporal Horton arteritis, but isolated involvement of the coronary arteries is exceptional.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0937-9827
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
120
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
377-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Sudden death due to giant cell coronary arteritis.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Münster, Röntgenstrasse 23, 48149 Münster, Germany. karger@uni-muenster.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports