Abstract:Acute coronary syndromes mainly affect patients with cardiovascular risk factors, it may occur in non-atherosclerotic patients such those with systemic disease. Coronary artery involvement occurs in 10 % to 30 % of cases of Takayasu arteritis. The present report describes the case of a young woman presented for a myocardial infarction revealing a Takayasu disease.
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