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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders BioMed Central Case report Open Access Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after amoxycillin-induced anaphylactic shock in a young adult with normal coronary arteries: a case report 1 2 3 Aristofanis Gikas* , George Lazaros and Kalliopi Kontou-Fili Address: 1Health Center of Salamis, Salamis, Greece, 2Cardiology Department, Elpis General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece and 3Department of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Laiko General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece Email: Aristofanis Gikas* - argikas@internet.gr; George Lazaros - glaz35@; Kalliopi Kontou-Fili - kontoufk@otenet.gr * Corresponding author Published: 25 February 2005 Received: 23 May 2004 Accepted: 25 February 2005 BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005, 5:6 doi:10.1186/1471-2261-5-6 This article is available from: /1471-2261/5/6 © 2005 Gikas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Acute myocardial infarction (MI) following anaphylaxis is rare, especially in subjects with normal coronary arteries. The exact pathogenetic mechanism of MI in anaphylaxis remains unclear. Case presentation: The case of a 32-year-old asthmatic male with systemic anaphylaxis