Causes of coronary artery disease

• Atherosclerosis
• Arteritis
• systemic lupus erythematosus
• polyarteritis nodosa
• rheumatoid arthritis
• ankylosing spondylitis
• syphilis
• Takayasu's disease
• Embolism
• infective endocarditis
• left atrial/ventricular thrombus
• left atrial/ventricular tumour
• prosthetic valve thrombus
• complication of cardiac catheterization
• Coronary mural thickening
• amyloidosis
• radiation therapy
• Hurler's disease
• pseudoxanthoma elasticum
• Other causes of coronary luminal narrowing
• aortic dissection
• coronary spasm
• Congenital coronary artery disease
• anomalous origin from pulmonary artery
• arteriovenous fistula

This also causes central chest pain, which is sharp in character and aggravated by deep inspiration, cough or postural changes. It is usually idiopathic or caused by Coxsackie B infection. It may also occur as a complication of myocardial infarction, but other causes are seen less commonly