Coronary Artery Ectasia with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Case Report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Coronary artery ectasia (CAE), a rare condition characterized by abnormal dilation of the coronary arteries, has increasingly been recognized as a potential risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). While CAE is often asymptomatic, it can predispose individuals to thrombus formation, leading to occlusions and subsequent myocardial damage. Our case is a 36-year-old male with no prior medical problem who presented with chest pain and shortness of breath and was diagnosed as a non-STEMI. The coronary angiogram revealed multiple ectatic segments in the coronary artery with 100% stenosis in the circumflex branch. Coronary artery ectasia represents an emerging risk factor for acute myocardial infarction. The complex relationship between these two conditions is essential for improving diagnosis, prevention, and treatment strategies. Presentation of CAE is usually asymptomatic but when present with occlusive symptoms, management is guided by the extent of occlusion similar to coronary artery disease. CBMJ 2025 July: vol. 14 no. 02 P:193-197
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".