Lipoprotein(a) as the only risk factor in young men with myocardial infarction

Abstract

In the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease that patients of middle and older age groups can have, the important task is to identify the classic risk factors and attempt to modify them. However there are cases when young men without classic risk factors can have such disease. In such situations an important diagnostic point is to identify hidden non-traditional risk factors. Here is a case of demonstration of coronary heart disease as an acute myocardial infarction that a young man without risk factors but with a significant increase in the level of lipoprotein (a) has and possible approaches to therapy that reduce the level of this indicator