A significant percentage of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) demonstrate coronary artery calcification (CAC) on imaging, with variations by ANCA ...

It causes inflammation in all the arteries but is most concerning when it affects the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart. Wegener’s Vasculitis Now known as granulomatosis with ...

coronary vasculitis, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (stress-induced cardiomyopathy), emboli to the coronaries, myocarditis, trauma or cardiac contusion and congenital coronary anomalies.

This can occur as post-stenotic dilation during ahteroslcerotic coronary disease or can occur as a part of a vasculitis. Kawasaki's disease during childhood can lead to coronary aneurysms in ...