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Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease

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Nonatherosclerotic coronary artery disease is rare but often produces severe and life-threatening complications, including coronary artery aneurysm, spasm, dissections, stenosis, or intraluminal thrombosis, that may occur at a young age and are often silent in the early stages of disease. Accurate diagnosis and proper patient management require the recognition by clinicians of the CT findings associated with these complications.

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Sakuma, T., Ouchi, K., Fukuda, K. (2019). Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease. In: Schoepf, U. (eds) CT of the Heart. Contemporary Medical Imaging. Humana, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-237-7_25

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