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. 2018 Sep 3;7:F1000 Faculty Rev-1378. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.15096.1

Table 2. Causes of acute myocardial infarction without coronary atherosclerosis.

•  Coronary artery disease other than atherosclerosis (for
example, Kawasaki’s syndrome)
•  Trauma to coronary arteries
•  Spontaneous coronary dissection
•  Coronary mural thickening with metabolic disease or intimal
proliferation (for example, amyloid and Fabry’s disease)
•  Other causes of luminal narrowing (for example, spasm)
•  Coronary emboli
•  Congenital coronary anomalies
•  Supply–demand mismatch
•   In situ thrombosis
•  Other (for example, contusion, complications of angiography,
Takotsubo, Takayasu’s arteritis, and giant cell arteritis)