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but they have decreased plasma tissue factor pathway inhibitor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> This hypercoagulable and hypofibrinolytic state may increase the risk for atherosclerotic and atherothrombotic complications&#44; as in our patient&#46; The relative risk for the occurrence of a cardiovascular event among patients using high-dose glucocorticoids &#40;&#8805;7&#46;5 mg&#47;day&#41; was 2&#46;56&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> Similarly&#44; another study showed increased risk of acute myocardial infarction with corticosteroid use&#44; with a greater risk observed among users of high doses &#40;&#62;10 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Our patient was taking oral prednisolone 40 mg&#47;day&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Coronary spasm may be induced by corticosteroids&#46; It has been reported that nitrate&#44; nitrite and nitric oxide release is decreased by cortisol treatment in a dose-dependent manner due to decreased ATP-induced intracellular calcium mobilization&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Additionally&#44; endothelial nitric oxide synthase degradation is increased&#44; leading to decreased endothelial nitric oxide synthase protein levels&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Glucocorticoids reduce endothelial nitric oxide synthase mRNA stability&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> inhibit the synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin&#44; an important cofactor of endothelial nitric oxide synthase&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> and suppress the production of the vasodilator prostacyclin by downregulating cyclooxygenase-1 gene expression&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> On the other hand&#44; they increase the synthesis of the vasoconstrictor thromboxane&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Sustained elevation of serum cortisol levels might lead to sensitization of coronary vasoconstricting responses through Rho-kinase activation&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> while oral cortisol administration impairs cholinergic vasodilation even in healthy normotensive subjects&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> All these mechanisms may reduce coronary blood flow by increasing contraction of coronary arteries&#46; There are a few case reports in the literature reporting the occurrence of coronary spasm following corticosteroid administration&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Short-term use of oral prednisolone in our patient may have led to endothelial dysfunction&#44; increased microvascular resistance&#44; coronary vasospasm&#44; reduced coronary flow reserve&#44; coronary slow flow&#44; increased thrombogenicity&#44; and eventually recurrent myocardial ischemia&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Conclusion</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Drugs containing steroids have many side effects involving the cardiovascular system&#46; It should be borne in mind that their use may trigger recurrent myocardial ischemia in some patients&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have obtained the written informed consent of the patients or subjects mentioned in the article&#46; 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Case report
Steroid-induced recurrent myocardial ischemia
Isquemia do miocárdio recorrente induzida por esteróides
Ufuk Yildirim
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ufukyildirim2715@yahoo.com.tr

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, Okan Gulel, Korhan Soylu, Serkan Yuksel, Mahmut Sahin
Ondokuz Mayis University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Samsun, Turkey
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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Introduction</span><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Glucocorticoids not only promote cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension&#44; insulin resistance&#44; glucose intolerance&#44; dyslipidemia and obesity&#44; but also have direct effects on the heart and blood vessels&#44; influencing vascular function&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Here we describe a female patient under oral prednisolone therapy due to a diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension with papilledema&#46; Unfortunately&#44; short-term treatment with prednisolone caused an unusual complication in the patient&#44; i&#46;e&#46;&#44; recurrent myocardial ischemia&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Case report</span><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A 64-year-old woman with a history of hyperlipidemia had recurrent episodes of anginal chest pain at rest and with exertion within one month of starting oral prednisolone &#40;40 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46; Her chest pain was not resolved by oral nitroglycerine&#46; The resting electrocardiogram &#40;ECG&#41; showed normal sinus rhythm and revealed no ischemic changes &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Figure 1</a>A&#41;&#46; Diagnostic coronary angiography &#40;CAG&#41; showed no obstructive atherosclerotic lesions&#44; but slow flow was present in the right coronary artery &#40;RCA&#41;&#46; She was discharged from the hospital medicated with aspirin &#40;100 mg&#47;day&#41; and diltiazem &#40;90 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Two weeks after the first admission&#44; she was again admitted to the emergency department with severe anginal chest pain&#46; The ECG showed nodal rhythm with a heart rate of 40 bpm&#44; ST-segment elevation in leads II&#44; III&#44; aVF and ST-segment depression in leads I and aVL&#46; She was urgently transferred to the cardiac catheterization laboratory&#46; This time&#44; interestingly&#44; CAG showed that the mid portion of the posterior descending artery &#40;PDA&#41; of the RCA was totally occluded &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Figure 1</a>B&#41;&#46; When a floppy guidewire was passed from the totally occluded PDA&#44; the thrombus moved distally and TIMI III flow was obtained &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Figure 1</a>C&#41;&#46; At follow-up in the intensive care unit&#44; the ECG returned to sinus rhythm with resolution of the ST segment changes&#46; Pathological Q waves did not develop&#44; but troponin I was elevated at 12 ng&#47;ml &#40;reference&#58; 0&#8211;0&#46;2 ng&#47;ml&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Four days after myocardial infarction &#40;MI&#41;&#44; the patient again suffered from severe anginal chest pain&#46; The ECG revealed similar abnormalities to those of four days previously &#40;i&#46;e&#46;&#44; nodal rhythm&#44; ST-segment elevation in leads II&#44; III and aVF&#44; and ST-segment depression in leads I and aVL&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Figure 2</a>A&#41;&#46; With intravenous atropine &#40;1 mg&#41; and isotonic saline infusion&#44; sinus rhythm was restored and blood pressure was normalized&#46; CAG showed that the PDA was open&#46; But this time&#44; there was slow flow in the left anterior descending coronary artery&#46; At follow-up&#44; the ECG showed pathological Q waves and T-wave inversions in leads II&#44; III&#44; and aVF&#46; Additionally&#44; T-wave inversions developed in the anterior precordial leads &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Figure 2</a>B&#41;&#46; Troponin I was elevated at 41 ng&#47;ml&#46; Transthoracic echocardiography revealed wall motion abnormalities in the left ventricular inferior and posterior walls&#46; There was no thrombus in the cardiac chambers and the interatrial septum was intact&#44; without passage of agitated saline&#46; There was no abnormal mass related to the heart valves and blood tests revealed no coagulation disorder&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The possibility was raised that the patient&#39;s recurrent myocardial ischemia might be related to her steroid use&#46; Therefore&#44; after neurology consultation&#44; oral prednisolone was stopped&#46; She continued to receive oral acetazolamide therapy prescribed previously&#46; After discontinuation of prednisolone&#44; anginal chest pains did not recur&#46; The patient was subsequently discharged from the hospital uneventfully and has remained asymptomatic for one and a half years&#46; After discharge&#44; her cardiovascular medications were aspirin &#40;100 mg&#47;day&#41;&#44; clopidogrel &#40;75 mg&#47;day&#41;&#44; atorvastatin &#40;40 mg&#47;day&#41; and long-acting nifedipine &#40;30 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Discussion</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this case report&#44; the patient had recurrent episodes of anginal chest pain at rest and with exertion after short-term treatment with oral prednisolone&#46; Although only slow flow was found at the first CAG&#44; she had two consecutive episodes of MI at follow-up&#46; Since anginal chest pain and infarction did not recur after discontinuation of prednisolone&#44; it was thought that the recurrent myocardial ischemia might be related to steroid use&#46; What are the possible pathophysiological explanations for this hypothesis&#63;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It has been shown that high-dose dexamethasone increases soluble P-selectin&#44; a platelet activator&#44; and von Willebrand factor&#44; which is a prothrombotic marker&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Similarly&#44; short-term dexamethasone use is associated with an increase in clotting factor levels &#40;factors VII&#44; VIII&#44; XI&#41; and fibrinogen&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Patients with excess cortisol have increased platelet count and tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor-1&#44; but they have decreased plasma tissue factor pathway inhibitor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> This hypercoagulable and hypofibrinolytic state may increase the risk for atherosclerotic and atherothrombotic complications&#44; as in our patient&#46; The relative risk for the occurrence of a cardiovascular event among patients using high-dose glucocorticoids &#40;&#8805;7&#46;5 mg&#47;day&#41; was 2&#46;56&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> Similarly&#44; another study showed increased risk of acute myocardial infarction with corticosteroid use&#44; with a greater risk observed among users of high doses &#40;&#62;10 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Our patient was taking oral prednisolone 40 mg&#47;day&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Coronary spasm may be induced by corticosteroids&#46; It has been reported that nitrate&#44; nitrite and nitric oxide release is decreased by cortisol treatment in a dose-dependent manner due to decreased ATP-induced intracellular calcium mobilization&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Additionally&#44; endothelial nitric oxide synthase degradation is increased&#44; leading to decreased endothelial nitric oxide synthase protein levels&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Glucocorticoids reduce endothelial nitric oxide synthase mRNA stability&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> inhibit the synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin&#44; an important cofactor of endothelial nitric oxide synthase&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> and suppress the production of the vasodilator prostacyclin by downregulating cyclooxygenase-1 gene expression&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> On the other hand&#44; they increase the synthesis of the vasoconstrictor thromboxane&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Sustained elevation of serum cortisol levels might lead to sensitization of coronary vasoconstricting responses through Rho-kinase activation&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> while oral cortisol administration impairs cholinergic vasodilation even in healthy normotensive subjects&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> All these mechanisms may reduce coronary blood flow by increasing contraction of coronary arteries&#46; There are a few case reports in the literature reporting the occurrence of coronary spasm following corticosteroid administration&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Short-term use of oral prednisolone in our patient may have led to endothelial dysfunction&#44; increased microvascular resistance&#44; coronary vasospasm&#44; reduced coronary flow reserve&#44; coronary slow flow&#44; increased thrombogenicity&#44; and eventually recurrent myocardial ischemia&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Conclusion</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Drugs containing steroids have many side effects involving the cardiovascular system&#46; It should be borne in mind that their use may trigger recurrent myocardial ischemia in some patients&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have obtained the written informed consent of the patients or subjects mentioned in the article&#46; 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