Incidental myocardial infarction in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV?

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Incidental myocardial infarction in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV? Gilchrist ER, Duflou JA
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Abstract
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV is an illness that often leads to premature death due to arterial rupture or dissection and is characterized by very fragile connective tissue. This report documents the death of a 30-year-old man with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV from myocardial rupture and cardiac tamponade following a myocardial infarction. We believe that Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV contributed to the coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial rupture in this young man and that this disease led indirectly to his death by myocardial infarction, an unusual cause of death in this syndrome.

Keywords:
acute myocardial infarction, autopsy, cardiac tamponade, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV, forensic science, sudden death
ISSN: 0022-1198
Paper ID: JFS2004168
DOI: 10.1520/JFS2004168

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