[Acute coronary syndrome provoked by a coronary intramural hematoma].

Background: Intramural coronary hematoma (ICH) is an unusual cause of acute coronary syndrome, and it represents a diagnostic challenge, especially in young patients in which it is not considered among the differential causes of acute myocardial ischemia.

Clinical Case: 40-year-old female, with type 2 diabetes and no other cardiovascular risk factors, who assisted to the Emergency Room with chest pain. In her first evaluation, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and troponin I elevation were found.

Diffusive transport of waves in a periodic waveguide.

We study the propagation of waves in quasi-one-dimensional finite periodic systems whose classical (ray) dynamics is diffusive. By considering a random matrix model for a chain of L identical chaotic cavities, we show that its average conductance as a function of L displays an ohmic behavior even though the system has no disorder. This behavior, with an average conductance decay N/L, where N is the number of propagating modes in the leads that connect the cavities, holds for 1≪L≲√N.

Number of propagating modes of a diffusive periodic waveguide in the semiclassical limit.

We study the number of propagating Bloch modes N(B) of an infinite periodic billiard chain. The asymptotic semiclassical behavior of this quantity depends on the phase-space dynamics of the unit cell, growing linearly with the wave number k in systems with a non-null measure of ballistic trajectories and going like ∼square root of k in diffusive systems. We have calculated numerically N(B) for a waveguide with cosine-shaped walls exhibiting strongly diffusive dynamics.