<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Environmental factors may have an important role in the development of coronary heart disease. However, it is not clearly understood yet how the genetic factors interplay with the environmental ones in the onset of acute myocardial infarction. The early onset of coronary artery disease in cases with a positive family history suggests a certain role of genetic predisposition, but the open question remains: could environmental differences contribute to this predisposition? This case report describes similar coronary angiographic findings of two brothers who developed acute myocardial infarction in their early 40s, after being exposed to different environmental risk factors.</p></abstract>

Environmental factors may have an important role in the development of coronary heart disease. However, it is not clearly understood yet how the genetic factors interplay with the environmental ones in the onset of acute myocardial infarction. The early onset of coronary artery disease in cases with a positive family history suggests a certain role of genetic predisposition, but the open question remains: could environmental differences contribute to this predisposition? This case report describes similar coronary angiographic findings of two brothers who developed acute myocardial infarction in their early 40s, after being exposed to different environmental risk factors.

Identical STEMI Pattern in Two Siblings with Different Risk Factors

Center of Advanced Research in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging, CardioMed Medical Center

Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies

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Environmental factors may have an important role in the development of coronary heart disease. However, it is not clearly understood yet how the genetic...

Identical STEMI Pattern in Two Siblings with Different Risk Factors

Published Online: Oct 20, 2020

Page range: 63 - 66

Received: Jul 20, 2020

Accepted: Aug 27, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jce-2020-0012

Keywords
siblings, coronary artery disease, genetic predisposition, ankylosing spondylitis

© 2020 Renata Gerculy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Identical STEMI Pattern in Two Siblings with Different Risk Factors

Published Online: Oct 20, 2020

Page range: 63 - 66

Received: Jul 20, 2020

Accepted: Aug 27, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jce-2020-0012

Keywordssiblings, coronary artery disease, genetic predisposition, ankylosing spondylitis

© 2020 Renata Gerculy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
siblings, coronary artery disease, genetic predisposition, ankylosing spondylitis