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Dissection of the coronary artery wall with resultant occlusion of the lumen, which commonly affects the left anterior descending artery, is a consistent gross finding. An inflammatory infiltrate, which is predominantly composed of eosinophils in the tunica adventitia and tunica media and is often accompanied by a hematoma in between these 2 layers, is observed histologically. The etiology remains unclear, but an increase in the activity of eosinophils because of hormonal interactions during pregnancy has been suggested. Interplay of hormones is thought to culminate in the release of histolytic agents by the eosinophils, which initiate the dissection process. Currently, there is no specific treatment for eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis, but cyclophosphamide and prednisone have shown positive results in the treatment of spontaneous coronary artery dissection with unspecified periadventitial inflammation. Percutaneous coronary procedures have also resulted in favorable outcomes in a subset of patients. Because of the high, sudden death rate in eosinophilic coronary monoarteritis, deciphering the underlying pathophysiology of this almost invariably fatal disease remains both a challenge and a key to developing screening methods that will allow timely detection and thus treatment.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5858\/arpa.2012-0610-rs","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,30]],"date-time":"2014-06-30T15:06:14Z","timestamp":1404140774000},"page":"979-981","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Eosinophilic Coronary Monoarteritis"],"prefix":"10.5858","volume":"138","author":[{"given":"Chrystalle Katte","family":"Carreon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Hofstra North Shore\u2013LIJ School of Medicine, Lake Success, New York."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael J.","family":"Esposito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Hofstra North Shore\u2013LIJ School of Medicine, Lake Success, New York."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"3906","reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"i1543-2165-138-7-979-b01","series-title":"Am J Forensic Med Pathol","first-page":"268","article-title":"Sudden deaths from eosinophilic coronary 204 monoarteritis: a subset of spontaneous coronary artery dissection","volume":"30","author":"Stoukas\n              V,","year":"2009","unstructured":"Stoukas\n              V, \n            \n              Dragovic\n              LJ. \n          \n          Sudden deaths from eosinophilic coronary 204 monoarteritis: a subset of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. 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