Myocardial infarction in a premenopausal woman on leuprolide therapy

Irving E. Perez; Mark A. Menegus; Cynthia C. Taub

doi:10.1155/2015/390642

Myocardial infarction in a premenopausal woman on leuprolide therapy

Irving E. Perez, Mark A. Menegus, Cynthia C. Taub

Medicine

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Premenopausal women with chest pain syndrome may have nonatherosclerotic coronary arteries with abnormal coronary flow. Estrogens have cardioprotective effect improving coronary vasodilatation. This case report discusses the consequences of leuprolide use by decreasing estrogen levels which led to acute myocardial infarction.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	390642
Journal	Case Reports in Medicine
Volume	2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/390642
State	Published - 2015

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