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Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Normal Findings from Coronary Arteriography and Without Coronary Vasculitis

Case Reports

Carlos Lavalle, MD

Eduardo Chávez, MD

Marcelo Jiménez, MD

José Luis Acosta, MD

Elías Baduí, MD, FACA

Héctor Albarrán, MD

Alberto Rangel, MD

Calle de La Pajarera 1 Unidad Independencia, Delegación Magdalena Contreras Mexico, D.F. CP. 10100 Mexico

The authors present the cases of two young patients, a man and a woman, who presented with myocardial infarction, in the absence of ischemic heart disease or stenosis of the coronary arteries. The woman was known to have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for the past 3 years (the immunoglobulin M [IgM] anticardiolipins antibodies were positive), without a history of coronary risk factors. Suddenly she presented with acute chest pain on rest that lasted 4 hours and culminated in anterior wall myocardial infarction. She was admitted to the coronary care unit, where no thrombolysis was given. She did not have echocardiographic evidence of Libman-Sacks endocarditis, but myocardial infarction was evident at the electrocardiogram (ECG) . The young man had SLE (the IgM anticardi olipins were absent, but he was positive for lupus anticoagulant antibodies), he was hyperlipidemic, was a moderate smoker and moderately obese, and had no history of ischemic heart disease. He suddenly presented with an acute myocardial infarction docu mented by ECG, enzymes, and gammagraphy. In both patients, coronary angiography findings were normal and myocardial biopsy did not show evidence of arteritis. The relevance of these cases is the rare association of ischemic heart disease in SLE, with normal coronary arteries and without evidence of arteritis or verrucous endocarditis.

Angiology, Vol. 50, No. 3, 245-253 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905000310


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